SARAÇ, Esra Aralık Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Sınıf Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , CAPPELLARO, Evren Akdeniz Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Sınıf Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

Views of the Elementary Teachers and Pre-Service Elementary Teachers on the Nature of Science

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The aim of this study is to reveal the views of the elementary teachers and pre-service elementary teachers on the nature of science. The study group of the research has consisted of 116 teachers and 105 pre-service teachers. The questionnaire of VOSTS-TR adapted to Turkish by Doğan (2005) was used with the aim of determining the views of the participants. Half-structural interviews were made with 10 teachers and 8 pre-service teachers with the aim of detailing the data obtained by the questionnaire. Evaluations of the collected data revealed that the participants had realistic views on the effect of society on science, the effect of the science on society, the nature of observations, nature of the classification scheme, impermanence and variability of scientific knowledge; while they had insufficient views on the relation between gender and scientific inventions, the nature of scientific models, the relation between hypothesis-theory-law and epistemological status of scientific knowledge. The interviews made with the participants supported these results. It was determined that there is no significant difference in their views on the nature of science, apart from two topics related to hypothesistheory- law hierarchy and the consistency of interdisciplinary concepts.

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Nature of Science , Teachers , Pre , Service Teachers , Science Education

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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