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Takriti, Rachel; Tairab, Hassan; Alhosani, Najwa; Elhoweris, Hala; Schofield, Lindsay; Rabbani, Lutfieh; AlAmirah, Iman – Science & Education, 2023
Nature of science (NOS) is a global conception of the infrastructure of science and, therefore, forms the foundation for teaching and learning science, especially for preservice teachers who are expected to have the proper understanding of NOS to thoughtfully emphasize NOS within their instruction to students. However, studies investigating UAE…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries
Saritas, Davut; Özcan, Hasan; Adúriz-Bravo, Agustín – Science & Education, 2021
The aim of this article is to propose a didactical approach to establish appropriate relations between different kinds of chemical knowledge and explanations at the macro and the submicro level. Incorrectly moving between these two levels is regarded as the cause of many misconceptions in school chemistry, and several theoretical frameworks have…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Misconceptions, Philosophy
Morin-Chassé, Alexandre – Science & Education, 2020
The paper presents an experimental study that examines the conditions required for news about behavioral genetics to activate genetic essentialism beliefs. Nine hundred sixty-five adults living in the USA were randomly assigned to read either a control news article or one of the three versions of a news story about behavioral genetics. The…
Descriptors: Genetics, Behavior Development, Beliefs, News Reporting
Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja – Science & Education, 2019
Teaching false theories goes against the general pedagogical and philosophical belief that we must only teach and learn what is true. In general, the goal of pedagogy is taken to be epistemic: to gain knowledge and avoid ignorance. In this article, I argue that for realists and antirealists alike, epistemological and pedagogical goals have to come…
Descriptors: Theories, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Science Instruction
Brown, David E. – Science & Education, 2014
There is wide consensus that learning in science must be considered a process of conceptual change rather than simply information accrual. There are three perspectives on students' conceptions and conceptual change in science that have significant presence in the science education literature: students' ideas as misconceptions, as…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
Hunter, T. Russell – Science & Education, 2012
In March of 1860 the eminent Harvard Botanist and orthodox Christian Asa Gray began promoting the Origin of Species in hopes of securing a fair examination of Darwin's evolutionary theory among theistic naturalists. To this end, Gray sought to demonstrate that Darwin had not written atheistically and that his theory of evolution by natural…
Descriptors: Evolution, Philosophy, Misconceptions, Theories
van Dijk, Esther M.; Reydon, Thomas A. C. – Science & Education, 2010
In this paper we present a schematic overview of the central concepts in evolutionary theory, setting them off against the background of widespread misconceptions about them. Our aim is to provide high school teachers with (1) an overview of those particular concepts that they can expect students to have difficulties with, (2) a comparison of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Klee, Robert – Science & Education, 2008
Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, a philosopher and a psychiatrist, now both policy analysts at the American Enterprise Institute, write in their recent book "One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance" that empirically unsupported psychological theories ultimately descended from the cultural upheavals of the…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Misconceptions, Criticism, Educational Principles
Rowlands, Stuart; Graham, Ted; Berry, John; McWilliam, Peter – Science & Education, 2007
Throughout its long history, the conceptual change literature assumed that student "misconceptions" in mechanics have been formed prior to instruction. As an attempt to shed light on conceptual change, this paper examines some of the trends in the literature and argues that misconceptions may be spontaneous rather than preformed, that schema…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Mechanics (Physics), Scientific Concepts