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The Nature of Science in Science Education

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    Chapter 1 The Role and Character of the Nature of Science in Science Education
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    Chapter 2 The Nature of Science in International Science Education Standards Documents
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    Chapter 3 The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths
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    Chapter 4 The Card Exchange: Introducing the Philosophy of Science
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    Chapter 5 Avoiding De-Natured Science: Activities that Promote Understandings of the Nature of Science
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    Chapter 6 Confronting Students’ Conceptions of the Nature of Science with Cooperative Controversy
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    Chapter 7 Nature of Science Activities Using the Dichotomy to a Philosophy Checklist Scientific Profile: From the Hawking-Gould
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    Chapter 8 Learning by Designing a Case of Heuristic Directed Theory Development in Science Teachting
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    Chapter 9 Using Historical Case Studies in Biology to Explore the Nature of Science: A Professional Development Program for High School Teachers
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    Chapter 10 A History of Science Approach to the Nature of Science: Learning Science by Rediscovering it
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    Chapter 11 Integrating the Nature of Science with Student Teaching: Rationale and Strategies
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    Chapter 12 A Thematic Introduction to the Nature of Science: The Rationale and Content of a Course for Science Educators
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    Chapter 13 The Nature of Science: Achieving Scientific Literacy by Doing Science
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    Chapter 14 Elementary Science Teaching Methods: Developing and Measuring Student Views about the Nature of Science
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    Chapter 15 Nature of Science: Implications for Education an Undergraduate Course for Prospective Teachers
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    Chapter 16 The Use of Real and Imaginary Cases in Communicating the Nature of Science: A Course Outline
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    Chapter 17 Teaching the Nature of Science as an Element of Science, Technology and Society
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    Chapter 18 Of Starting Points and Destinations: Teacher Education and the Nature of Science
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    Chapter 19 A Programme for Developing Understanding of the Nature of Science in Teacher Education
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    Chapter 20 The Nature of Science as a Foundation for Teaching Science: Evolution as a Case Study
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    Chapter 21 Assessing Understanding of the Nature of Science: A Historical Perspective
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Title
The Nature of Science in Science Education
Published by
Springer Netherlands, April 2006
DOI 10.1007/0-306-47215-5
ISBNs
978-0-7923-5080-4, 978-0-306-47215-2
Editors

McComas, William F.

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Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Pakistan 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 203 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 42 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 16%
Student > Bachelor 18 8%
Professor 13 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Other 46 22%
Unknown 46 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 68 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 10%
Chemistry 14 7%
Psychology 9 4%
Arts and Humanities 8 4%
Other 40 19%
Unknown 53 25%