Investigation of Preservice Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Understanding and Decision Making on Socioscientific Issue through the Fractal Model

IF 2.1 3区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Science & Education Pub Date : 2022-01-22 DOI:10.1007/s11191-022-00319-1

Elif Ece Adal, Jale Cakiroglu

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The paper reports a qualitative study to reveal how preservice science teachers' decision making (DM) processes on socioscientific issue (SSI) in a referendum case compare between unsophisticated (Group U) and sophisticated (Group S) views in terms of nature of science (NOS) understandings. Firstly, pre-study was conducted with focus group interviews with pre-service science teachers. With the findings, one-on-one semi-structured in-depth interviews of the main study for DM on SSI, the artificial meat was developed. In the main study, 12 participants’ responses were analyzed, and a new DM model named the Fractal Model of DM which reflects real-life situation DM process, especially referendum case, was constructed. In DM, NOS lens usages of five NOS aspects about creativity and imagination, observation and inference, empirical-basis, subjectivity, and social and cultural embeddedness and 23 other lens usages such as animal rights (morality), economic, and risk factor were detected and explained through the fractal model. Findings showed that there is a hidden and complex effect of NOS understandings about tentativeness of scientific knowledge on DM. With multiple lens usage, each participant had multi-perspective considerations in DM. While Group S used NOS lenses mainly parallel with their NOS understandings, Group U used them in a more complicated way.

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基于分形模型的职前科学教师对社会科学问题的科学理解与决策的调查

摘要本文通过定性研究，揭示了在对科学本质(NOS)的理解方面，未成熟(U组)和成熟(S组)的职前科学教师在公投案例中对社会科学问题(SSI)的决策过程的比较。首先，采用焦点小组访谈对职前科学教师进行预研究。根据研究结果，一对一半结构化深度访谈主要研究DM对SSI、人造肉的影响。在主要研究中，对12名参与者的反馈进行了分析，构建了一个新的决策模型——决策分形模型，该模型反映了现实情况下的决策过程，特别是公投案例。通过分形模型检测了DM中NOS的五个方面(创造力与想象力、观察与推理、经验基础、主观性、社会文化嵌入性)和动物权利(道德)、经济、风险因素等23个方面的镜头使用情况，并进行了解释。研究结果表明，NOS理解对科学知识的尝探性具有隐藏和复杂的影响。在多个镜头的使用中，每个参与者在DM中都有多个角度的考虑。S组使用NOS镜头主要与他们的NOS理解平行，而U组使用NOS镜头的方式更为复杂。

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Science & Education Social Sciences-Education

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1117

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Science & Education publishes research informed by the history, philosophy and sociology of science and mathematics that seeks to promote better teaching, learning, and curricula in science and mathematics. More particularly Science & Education promotes: The utilization of historical, philosophical and sociological scholarship to clarify and deal with the many intellectual issues facing contemporary science and mathematics education. Collaboration between the communities of scientists, mathematicians, historians, philosophers, cognitive psychologists, sociologists, science and mathematics educators, and school and college teachers. An understanding of the philosophical, cultural, economic, religious, psychological and ethical dimensions of modern science and the interplay of these factors in the history of science. The inclusion of appropriate history and philosophy of science and mathematics courses in science and mathematics teacher-education programmes. The dissemination of accounts of lessons, units of work, and programmes in science and mathematics, at all levels, that have successfully utilized history and philosophy. Discussion of the philosophy and purposes of science and mathematics education, and their place in, and contribution to, the intellectual and ethical development of individuals and cultures.