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In defence of non-epistemic aspects of nature of science: insights from an intercultural approach to history of science

Gandolfi, HE; (2018) In defence of non-epistemic aspects of nature of science: insights from an intercultural approach to history of science. Cultural Studies of Science Education 10.1007/s11422-018-9879-8. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

The focus of this article is to expand María del Mar Aragón, José Antonio Acevedo-Díaz and Antonio García-Carmona’s paper “Prospective Biology teachers’ understanding of the nature of science through an analysis of the historical case of Semmelweis and childbed fever” by focusing on the discussion about teaching non-epistemic aspects of NOS. This article will draw on my own research at secondary schools in London, U.K. to illustrate different possibilities to broaden this inclusion of non-epistemic aspects into school science through the use of an intercultural perspective to History of Science, that is, to how historical cases are employed to teach about NOS.

Type: Article
Title: In defence of non-epistemic aspects of nature of science: insights from an intercultural approach to history of science
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-018-9879-8
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-018-9879-8
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Nature of science, History of science, Intercultural science, Science teaching
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Directorate
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057459
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