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An analysis of prospective science teachers' understanding of the nature of science
Author(s) -
Ogunniyi M. B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660190104
Subject(s) - viewpoints , science education , philosophy of science , preference , mathematics education , nature of science , science, technology, society and environment education , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , art , statistics , visual arts
Prospective science teachers involved in this study did not endorse viewpoints about the language of science associated with any philosopher of science to the exclusion of others. Their preference, however, appeared to be with Hempel. Although to some degree, both prospective science teachers and science majors subscribed to an inductive notion of science, the former leaned more towards the currently acceptable deductive notion of the nature of science after offering a science methods course emphasizing that logic.