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Article: An investigation of Taiwanese early adolescents' views about the nature of science.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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INTRODUCTION
There is no doubt that science is one of the major school subjects for adolescent students. The goal of science education is not only to help students acquire scientific knowledge, but to understand its development. In other words, science education should not only teach what science is, but also how scientific knowledge is constructed through a series of complex interactions among different views, such as cultural and social. Traditional science education focuses mainly on the acquisition of scientific facts, but very little on the process as well as the nature of developing scientific knowledge (Duschl, 1990). That is, science curricula, teachers, ...