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Çibik, Ayse Sert – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The aim of this study is to compare the change of pre-service science teachers' views about the nature of scientific knowledge through Project-Based History and Nature of Science training and Conventional Method. The sample of the study consists of two groups of 3rd grade undergraduate students attending teacher preparation program of science…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, Quasiexperimental Design
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Celik, Suat; Bayrakceken, Samih – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of an activity-based explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction undertaken in the context of a "Science, Technology and Society" course on the prospective science teachers' (PSTs') understandings of NOS. In this course, social science based inquiry activities were used to as a context…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Scientific Principles, Active Learning, Interviews
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Hammond, Lorie – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2001
Describes a unique and ongoing collaboration involving a team of bilingual/multicultural teacher-educators, preservice teachers, teachers, students, and community members in an urban California elementary school. Uses critical ethnography as a framework and focuses on building an American garden house to show how, by drawing on participants' funds…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teachers, Scientific Principles