Strengthening Future Science Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science: The Role of an Embedded Research Experience in Teacher Preparation

2020 ◽  
pp. 675-695
Author(s):  
Julie Angle
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Future Science

scholarly journals A case for examining pre-service teacher preparation for inquiry teaching science with technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris T. Shively ◽  
Randy Yerrick
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Inquiry Teaching ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Inquiry has been the framework for guiding reform-based science instruction. All too often, the role of technology is treated tacitly without contributions to this framework. This case study examines a collection of pre-service teachers enrolling in two educational technology courses and the role these experiences play in promoting inquiry teaching. Interviews, field notes, surveys, reflective digital narratives and student-generated exhibits served as the data informing the analysis of inquiry experiences which shaped the enacted lessons of science teachers. Implications for research and practices are discussed.Keywords: teacher reflection; science education; technologyCitation: Research in Learning Technology 2014, 22: 21691 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v22.21691

scholarly journals Naturaleza de las ciencias y formación de profesores de física. El caso de la experimentación

2016 ◽  
pp. 75-98
Author(s):  
Dr. Ángel Romero Chacón ◽  
Mtro. Yirsen Aguilar Mosquera ◽  
Dra. Luz Stella Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Physics Teacher ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training ◽  
Estudios Culturales

Se presentan algunos fundamentos y resultados de la investigación titulada "La experimentación y los procesos de formación de profesores de ciencias naturales", desarrollada por el Grupo de Estudios Culturales sobre las Ciencias y su Enseñanza de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. La investigación tuvo como propósito fundamentar una propuesta de formación de profesores de física, que aborde la experimentación en estrecha relación con reflexiones surgidas de la Naturaleza de las ciencias. Se adelantó tanto un análisis documental como un estudio de caso de tipo cualitativo–interpretativo, de los enunciados de un grupo de profesores de física a propósito de temáticas relacionadas con la experimentación. Los análisis adelantados permitieron caracterizar formas de asumir el rol de la experimentación en la clase de ciencias, que sirvieron de base para diseñar una propuesta de enseñanza de las ciencias en torno a la experimentación, dirigida a la formación de profesores de física y contextualizada con aportes de la Naturaleza de las ciencias. AbstractSome foundations and results of the research entitled "The experimentation and training processes of science teachers", developed by the Group Estudios Culturales sobre las Ciencias y su Enseñanza at the University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, are presented. The research was aimed to support a physics teacher training proposal, addressing experimentation and closely with reflections that comes from the Nature of Science. A documentary analysis was developed both as a case study of qualitative–interpretative type of statements of a group of physics teachers about issues related to experimentation. The developed analyzes allowed to characterize ways to assume the role of experimentation in science class, which formed the basis for designing a proposal for science teaching around experimentation, aimed at physics teacher training and contextualized with contributions from the Nature of Science. Recibido: 25 de septiembre de 2015 Aceptado: 29 de febrero de 2016

Beliefs of preschool teacher candidates about the nature of science

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-783
Author(s):  
Güzin Özyılmaz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Preschool Teacher ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Aim Of Science ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of science education is to enable children to become “science-literate.” Science literacy is defined as taking responsibility for and making decisions about situations requiring scientific understanding and having sufficient knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding of values to put their decisions into practice. Revealing teachers’ beliefs can help to understand the types of experiences presented by teachers in their classrooms. Inadequate understandings and misbeliefs of teachers shape the first perceptions of children about the NOS when they are formally introduced with science education in their early childhood. Most of the studies were also performed with science teachers and there have been few studies conducted with preschool teachers. Therefore, the present study was directed towards determining NOS beliefs of preschool teacher candidates. To achieve this aim, Nature of Science Beliefs Scale (NOSBS), developed by Özcan and Turgut (2014), was administered to the preschool teacher candidates studying in Preschool Education Department of Buca Education Faculty at Dokuz Eylül University in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, the NOS beliefs of the teacher candidates were found to be acceptable in general. While the findings of this study are consistent with those revealed in several relevant studies in the literature

Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Perspectives on the Nature of Science: A Comparative Study Between China and Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 209653112096678
Author(s):  
Guihua Zhang ◽  
Yuanrong Li ◽  
George Zhou ◽  
Sonia Wai-Ying Ho
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Science Teacher ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Science Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching Behaviors ◽  
Preservice Science Teachers

Purpose: The Nature of Science (NOS) is an important component of scientific literacy. Science teachers’ Views of the Nature of Science (VNOS) directly affect their teaching behaviors. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore science teachers’ VNOS and find ways of improvement. This study was designed to comparatively investigate preservice science teachers’ VNOS between China and Canada. Design/Approach/Methods: The study employed a survey design to explore how Chinese and Canadian preservice science teachers understood the seven different aspects of NOS. Findings: Data showed that preservice science teachers in China and Canada both hold a modern view about science education. The level of Chinese and Canadian participants’ understanding of NOS was above the relatively naive level. Chinese teachers had better macro-understanding toward science education but their micro-mastery was insufficient. While the Canadian participants had a better understanding of the NOS than their Chinese counterparts. Originality/Value: Based on the research results and the experience of science education and teacher education in Canada, we suggested that there is a need to reconstruct the preservice science teacher education curriculum in China and promote the transformation in the science teacher educational system.

scholarly journals Facing neoliberalism through dialogic spaces as sites of hope in science education: experiences of two self-organised communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betzabé Torres-Olave ◽  
Paulina Bravo González
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Science Teacher ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Science Teacher Educators

AbstractIn this paper, we discuss the role of dialogue in two layers; first, in relation to two self-organised communities of science teachers in which we participated and, second, our process of coming together during our PhDs to analyse these communities, a dialogue about the dialogue. Regarding the first layer, there is much to learn from science teachers and science teacher educators when they are organised in sites of learning that can be spaces of hope, beginnings, and becoming, as is illustrated in the case of these two self-organised communities. Regarding the second layer, we discuss the value of dialogue and the possibilities it offers to develop ideas for science education in a way that might be democratising, emancipatory, and offering counter-narratives in a neoliberal Chile. By engaging in this dialogue revisiting the practices of our communities, we gained a sense of agency within the field of science education. However, we realised that we need to move towards a critical view within our communities, and more contextual and transformative science education by translating these sites of hope to our educational praxis today. For us, this relates both to developing a collective view of how to make science education provide pedagogical conditions and experiences for critical and engaged citizenship and thinking how we can act and engage with different settings in solidarity. One way of moving towards this is by developing a political knowledge of our disciplines through a collective scientific conscientisation. Our communities are the departure points to achieve this.

FUTURE SCIENCE TEACHERS’ AWARENESS OF STEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
KÖKSAL ELA AYŞE ◽  
D.A. SADYKOVA ◽  
INAN SURYE
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Future Science
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