Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives

The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of short science stories based on the history of science for science teacher education. Such stories are implemented to acquaint prospective and practicing science teachers in all educational levels with a conceptualisation of the nature of science (NOS) d...

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Publicado: 2015
Materias:
History of science
Instructional unit
Intervention
Narratives
Nature of science
Rationalities
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo
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spelling paper:paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo2023-06-08T15:46:04Z Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives History of science Instructional unit Intervention Narratives Nature of science Rationalities The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of short science stories based on the history of science for science teacher education. Such stories are implemented to acquaint prospective and practicing science teachers in all educational levels with a conceptualisation of the nature of science (NOS) drawing from recent and contemporary developments in the philosophy of science (namely, the lines of new experimentalism and semantic conception of scientific theories). Science stories are here understood as narratives combining different ‘rationalities’, i.e. ways of presenting the scientific content in different stages of production and under different syntactic formats. In our work with teachers, the scientific enterprise is depicted as an aim-driven, value-laden transformation of the natural world mediated by conceptual and material tools; in such depiction, theoretical models are given a central role. The paper presents a didactical (i.e. instructional) unit with such conceptualisation of NOS; this conceptualisation is set against the backdrop of some scientific narratives on the history of the atomic theory that are embedded in the unit. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2015 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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topic History of science
Instructional unit
Intervention
Narratives
Nature of science
Rationalities
spellingShingle History of science
Instructional unit
Intervention
Narratives
Nature of science
Rationalities
Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives
topic_facet History of science
Instructional unit
Intervention
Narratives
Nature of science
Rationalities
description The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of short science stories based on the history of science for science teacher education. Such stories are implemented to acquaint prospective and practicing science teachers in all educational levels with a conceptualisation of the nature of science (NOS) drawing from recent and contemporary developments in the philosophy of science (namely, the lines of new experimentalism and semantic conception of scientific theories). Science stories are here understood as narratives combining different ‘rationalities’, i.e. ways of presenting the scientific content in different stages of production and under different syntactic formats. In our work with teachers, the scientific enterprise is depicted as an aim-driven, value-laden transformation of the natural world mediated by conceptual and material tools; in such depiction, theoretical models are given a central role. The paper presents a didactical (i.e. instructional) unit with such conceptualisation of NOS; this conceptualisation is set against the backdrop of some scientific narratives on the history of the atomic theory that are embedded in the unit. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
title Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives
title_short Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives
title_full Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives
title_fullStr Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives
title_full_unstemmed Teaching the Nature of Science with Scientific Narratives
title_sort teaching the nature of science with scientific narratives
publishDate 2015
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_08264805_v45_n3-4_p167_AdurizBravo
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