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Jean Bosco Bugingo; Lakhan Lal Yadav; Innocent Sebasaza Mugisha; K. K. Mashood – Science & Education, 2024
The paper aims to provide a review of literature that emphasizes students' and teachers' views on the nature of science (NOS) and associated instructional approaches to develop adequate understanding of the NOS that have been employed in different contexts. One hundred and seventy-two (172) studies were selected from ResearchGate, Academia, Google…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Scientific Principles, Students
John H. Bickford III – Science & Education, 2024
Teaching and learning relies on age-appropriate, credible formal (e.g., textbooks, textbook supplements) and informal (e.g., trade-books) curricular texts. Previous research traced American publishers' self-censorship about human evolution within twentieth-century textbooks. This study, informed by the latest scientific understandings, engaged in…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Biology, Science Instruction, Textbook Content
Fricke, Kristina; Reinisch, Bianca – Science & Education, 2023
Studies on the quality of nature of science (NOS) representations in school science textbooks report them being mostly of implicit manner and not fully adequate. However, the often underlying NOS framework of the consensus list in these studies is criticized as undifferentiated and inadequate. The family resemblance approach (FRA) to NOS shows…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Philosophy, Textbooks
Cheung, Kason Ka Ching; Erduran, Sibel – Science & Education, 2023
The paper reports about the outcome of a systematic review of research on family resemblance approach (FRA) to nature of science in (NOS) science education. FRA is a relatively recent perspective on NOS being a system of cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional aspects of science. FRA thus consists of a set of categories such as aims and…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Interdisciplinary Approach, Epistemology, Network Analysis
Lockard, Joe; Goggin, Peter – Science & Education, 2023
The paper describes an upper-division university course in Mars literature taught online since Fall 2013. The course readings comprise six novels relating to Mars. Authors include H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. After an introduction, sections of the paper discuss course…
Descriptors: College Science, Astronomy, Space Sciences, Science Instruction
Wang, Shutao; Chen, Yaoyao; Lv, Xinlei; Xu, Jianmei – Science & Education, 2023
Bibliometric mapping serves as a method to systematically evaluate and visually demonstrate the development of a research field. CiteSpace and VOSviewer, two research tools of bibliometric mapping, were used in the present study to analyze, synthesize, and visualize the hot topics as well as frontier evolution of science education. Co-authorship…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Research, Bibliometrics, Concept Mapping
Keren, Lior; Kapon, Shulamit – Science & Education, 2023
Studies on integrated STEM education and the integration of engineering practices into the instruction of science have called for the need to better understand the similarities, differences and interrelations between science and engineering, as well the naïve views often associated with them. The current study contributes to this scholarly work…
Descriptors: Scientists, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Stereotypes
Li, Baoyu; Sjöström, Jesper; Ding, Bangping; Eilks, Ingo – Science & Education, 2023
Confucianism provides a specific view on the world held by many people living in several Asian societies. It offers views on humans and nature that generally differ from other traditional or Western modern views. The paper presents a systematic analysis of the literature in education with a focus on science education about the connection of…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Asian Culture, Science Education, Sustainability
Khishfe, Rola – Science & Education, 2023
The goal of all reform documents in science education is to target scientific literacy. Toward that end, having students understand the nature of science (NOS) is a critical component. As it turns out, the development of NOS conceptions is a cognitive learning outcome. Therefore, an explicit approach needs to be promoted and emphasized in the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Literature Reviews
Salimpour, Saeed; Fitzgerald, Michael T. – Science & Education, 2022
This study explored over 200 journals and a content-focussed research repository to investigate the occurrence of research on the Big Questions in the field of astronomy education research (AER), focussing on Cosmology and Religion. Using both qualitative and quantitative techniques, 151 articles were selected and analysed. Our results reveal that…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Education, Educational Research, Religion
Ferreira, Eric Batista; Toti, Frederico Augusto – Science & Education, 2022
Brazilian journals play an important role in the local scientific scene. Despite its importance, Brazilian scientific production in Physics and Science education needs further articulation regarding the profile and impact of manuscripts. Therefore, our main goal in this paper is to monitor the trends in the Brazilian journals from 2013 to 2019…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Periodicals
Daneshpour, Hosein; Kwegyir-Afful, Ebo – Science & Education, 2022
The present study sheds light on transdisciplinary education through the application of a scoping literature review, as a lack of a comprehensive synthesis in this area is evident. Thus, the overview frames and outlines the scattered research that has been fulfilled until now in this field. As a result, within transdisciplinary education, medical…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Medical Education
Mc Ewen, Birgitta – Science & Education, 2022
Epigenetics, the new research field at the cutting edge of biology research, needs to be introduced in biology education. The aim of this review is to support biology teachers and other non-experts to get an overview of the field, as a review in epigenetics has hardly been written for these groups. This review was done by finding documents…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biology, Science Teachers, Lay People
Upahi, Johnson Enero; Ramnarain, Umesh – Science & Education, 2022
Learning progressions (LPs) are descriptions of successively more sophisticated ways of thinking about an idea over an extended period of time. The growing interest of researchers in learning progressions is grounded in the potential it holds to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Previous review of research on LPs by Duschl et al.…
Descriptors: Science Education, Literature Reviews, Learning Processes, Thinking Skills
Wei, Bing; Wang, Yaqing – Science & Education, 2021
The term "science practice" has drawn increasing attention in the current science education literature. In this study, the methodology of content analysis was adopted to examine the presentation of science practice in 20 historical cases compiled in a popular science book. Three aspects and eight categories of science practice constitute…
Descriptors: Science History, Books, Science Activities