Findings generated by recent research in science education, international debate on the
guiding purposes of science education and the nature of scientific and technological literacy …

The Nature of Science is highly topical among science teacher educators and researchers.
Increasingly, it is a mandated topic in state curriculum documents. This book draws together …

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 …

How teachers view the nature of scientific knowledge is crucial to their understanding of
science content and how it can be taught. This book presents an overview of the dynamics of …

We argue for a virtue epistemological approach to the demarcation problem, for we think that
such an approach makes sense from the perspective of an ameliorative epistemology. We …

This paper comments on the process of re‐development of the Maori‐medium Science
(Pūtaiao) curriculum, as part of overall curriculum development in Aotearoa New Zealand. A …

This dissertation set out to investigate three facets of scientific uncertainty communication:
the ethical context it inhabits (given the prevalent weaponization of uncertainty against the …

Idealizing conditions are scapegoats for scientific hypotheses, too often blamed for
falsehood better attributed to less obvious sources. But while the tendency to blame …

Pour comprendre l'importance de la prise en compte des conceptions initiales des élèves
dans le processus de construction des connaissances par ceux-ci en sciences de la vie et …

I once taught in a school in Sydney's outer western suburbs. The families who trusted the
school with their children were mainstream Anglo-Australians. The school had just …