Table of Contents

Rationales for Including Nature of Science in Science Instruction.- The Role and Character of the Nature of Science in Science Education.- The Nature of Science in International Science Education Standards Documents.- The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths.- Communicating the Nature of Science: Plans, Approaches and Strategies.- The Card Exchange: Introducing the Philosophy of Science.- Avoiding De-Natured Science: Activities that Promote Understandings of the Nature of Science.- Confronting Students’ Conceptions of the Nature of Science with Cooperative Controversy.- Nature of Science Activities Using the Dichotomy to a Philosophy Checklist Scientific Profile: From the Hawking-Gould.- Learning by Designing a Case of Heuristic Directed Theory Development in Science Teachting.- Using Historical Case Studies in Biology to Explore the Nature of Science: A Professional Development Program for High School Teachers.- A History of Science Approach to the Natureof Science: Learning Science by Rediscovering it.- Integrating the Nature of Science with Student Teaching: Rationale and Strategies.- Communicating the Nature of Science: Courses and Course Elements.- A Thematic Introduction to the Nature of Science: The Rationale and Content of a Course for Science Educators.- The Nature of Science: Achieving Scientific Literacy by Doing Science.- Elementary Science Teaching Methods: Developing and Measuring Student Views about the Nature of Science.- Nature of Science: Implications for Education an Undergraduate Course for Prospective Teachers.- The Use of Real and Imaginary Cases in Communicating the Nature of Science: A Course Outline.- Teaching the Nature of Science as an Element of Science, Technology and Society.- Of Starting Points and Destinations: Teacher Education and the Nature of Science.- A Programme for Developing Understanding of the Nature of Science in Teacher Education.- The Nature of Science as a Foundation for Teaching Science: Evolution as a Case Study.- Assessing the Nature of Science Understanding.- Assessing Understanding of the Nature of Science: A Historical Perspective.

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