THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING LEVEL OF PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS

Gul Unal Coban

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THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING LEVEL OF PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS

Title	THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING LEVEL OF PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS
Publication Type	Journal Article
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Coban, GU
Journal	Journal of Baltic Science Education
Volume	9
Issue	3
Start Page	237-254
Date Published	September/2010
Type of Article	Original article
ISSN	1648-3898
Other Numbers	ICID: 925318
Keywords	Prospective Science Teachers, scientific issues, understanding of science
Abstract	Scientific understanding is im¬portant to science teachers. The way which science teachers use for explaining issues related to science also affects students’ understanding of science. Therefore, as a measure of the prospective science teach¬ers’ understanding of science, their concep¬tions and descriptions on scientific issues compose the aim of this study. The views of 75 prospective science teachers who are selected by purposive sampling were probed about the meaning of scientific and being scientific, the scientific events, the scientific questions and the scientific knowledge through open ended questions. The results, which are based on significant¬ly different categories, displayed that the prospective science teachers’ understand¬ing of scientific issues is generally based on the phenomenon and empirical based understanding and perceived features those address traditional view of science. Besides, they seem to have inadequate understanding of science regarding logi¬cal, relational, sociological and historical aspects. At the end some recommenda¬tions were proposed accordingly.
URL	http://oaji.net/articles/2014/987-1405172133.pdf
Refereed Designation	Refereed
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