Abstract
Today, learning environments are constantly getting developed and updated to make the teaching-learning process more active. Besides, tools that enhance learning in educational environments are also getting diversified. One of these educational tools is the movies that are based on real life stories. In addition to informing students about several biological topics and issues, the movie called Lorenzo's Oil handles the impact of a neurological disease on the social environment. The movie also informs the audience about science, scientists, scientific process skills and nature of science, and encourages the audience to think and reflect about these issues. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of this movie, which covers a real-life story, on the teaching of science and nature of science elements of teacher candidates. For this purpose, the data of the study were collected through the VNOS-C questionnaire and reflective writings before and after a course in which the movie Lorenzo's Oil was included in the teaching process. At the end of the study, according to the findings obtained from the reflective writings and VNOS-C questionnaire, it was concluded that the views of the pre-service teachers on science and nature of science changed positively, and they were in the knowledgeable category at the end of the process.
Highlights
Understanding nature of science and issues related to nature of science is recognized as a vital component of scientific literacy around the world (American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] 1990; Lederman and Lederman, 2014; Millar and Osborne 1998; Osborne et al 2003; Wahbeh and Abd-El-Khalick 2014)
In which we examined the effect of the movie Lorenzo's Oil on the views of teacher candidates about nature of science, this perspective proposed by Clough (2011) regarding questions was adopted and the participants were asked critical questions during the application
This study was carried out in order to see how the views of pre-service science teachers about nature of science changed with the use of the movie Lorenzo's Oil as a teaching material
Summary
Understanding nature of science and issues related to nature of science is recognized as a vital component of scientific literacy around the world (American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] 1990; Lederman and Lederman, 2014; Millar and Osborne 1998; Osborne et al 2003; Wahbeh and Abd-El-Khalick 2014). More time and effort is required to develop or determine the best model or approach to teach nature of science (Lederman and Lederman, 2014), and there is no consensus among both students and teachers about the characteristics of such a model or approach that can lead to a better understanding of nature of science. Another noteworthy point to consider is that preparing teachers for teaching nature of science is surely a prerequisite for helping students at any level develop understanding
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