2007 Cilt 20 Sayı 2

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The effects of the nature of science beliefs on science teaching and learning
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2007) Özdemir, Gökhan
This paper discusses how science teachers’ beliefs about the nature of science affect their teaching orientations and how students’ beliefs about the nature of science affect their learning orientations. Related research literature suggests that science teachers’ and students’ epistemological commitments about science often align with positivist naïve view. In turn, science teachers’ instructions stress the objectivity and reproducibility of science and the products of science rather than the process of science. Students who have positivist naïve view adopt rote learning that leads them to memorization and meaningless learning. Considering the relationship between the nature of science beliefs and teaching and learning, this paper presents several educational implications including the constructivist approach as a shared epistemology for meaningful science learning. In light of recent research literature, this study also suggests explicit-reflective nature of science instruction embedded in scientific inquiry to enhance teacher candidates’ and students’ views of the nature of science.