Advances in Nature of Science Research

Abstract

Foreword, Richard Coll.- PART I: Conceptual Issues in the Nature of Science Research.- Chapter 1Changing the Focus: From Nature of Science to Features of Science, Michael Matthews.- Chapter 2 Perceptual, Attentional, and Cognitive Heuristics that Interact with the Nature of Science to Complicate Public Understanding of Science, Tina A. Grotzer, Rebecca B. Miller, Rebecca A. Lincoln.- Chapter 3 The Natures of Scientific Thinking: Creativity as the Handmaiden to Logic in the Development of Public and Personal Knowledge, Keith S Taber.- Chapter 4 The Bounded Nature of Science: An effective Tool in a Equitable Approach to the Teaching of Science, Sherry Southerland, Barry Golden, Patrick Enderle.- Chapter 5 Why the Study of Pseudoscience Should Be Included in Nature of Science Studies, Ronald Good.- Chapter 6 The Status of the Nature of Science in Science Education, Saouma BouJaoude, Garine Santourian.- PART II: Methodological Advances in the Nature of Science Research.- Chapter 7 Teaching and Learning of Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry: Building Capacity through Systematic Research-Based Professional Development, Judith S. Lederman, Norman G. Lederman, Byoung Sug Kim, Eun Kyung Ko.- Chapter 8 The Nature of Scientists' Nature of Science Views, Renee' Schwartz.- Chapter 9 The Nature of Science or the Nature of Teachers: Beginning Science Teachers' Understanding of NOS, Jonah B. Firestone, Sissy S. Wong, Julie A. Luft, Derek Fay.- Chapter 10 Learning about Nature of Science in Undergraduate Biology Laboratories, Elisabeth Schussler, Nazan Bautista.- Chapter 11 Context Matters: Linking Nature of Science Instruction to Science Process Skills, Randy L. Bell, Bridget K. Mulvey, Jennifer L. Maeng.- Chapter 12 Impact of a Nature of Science and Science Education Course on Teachers' Nature of Science Classroom Practices, Michael Clough, Joanne Olson.- Index.