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...Jho, H., “The role of physics in achieving scientific literacy in the present and the future,” in The International Handbook of Physics Education Research: Special Topics, edited by M. F. Taşar and P. R. L. Heron (AIP Publishing, Melville, New York, 2023), pp. 7-1–7-22. Introduction...

...de Mello Forato, T. C., de Lima, I. P. C., and Ferreira, G. K., “History of physics and socio-scientific issues: Approaching gender and social justice,” in The International Handbook of Physics Education Research: Special Topics, edited by M. F. Taşar and P. R. L. Heron (AIP Publishing...

...: Scientific Heavyweight The fight started in the summer of 1611 in the home of one Filippo Salviati, an Italian scientist and astronomer. A discussion evolved around the condensation and rarefaction of matter. Ice was mentioned as an example of condensation. The Aristotelians claimed...

...Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the scientific, technical, and project staff of CSIR-CEERI, India for their technical support. They are also grateful to CSIR, India for providing the financial support and research facilities to carry out the research work reported...

... and, especially, pseudo-science. As with the question of whether bridge qualifies as a sport, drawing this dividing line turns out to be remarkably difficult. For some time (mainly in the 19th century) it was believed that a certain method of inquiry, the “scientific method” characterized the activity called...

... that involve the issue, influential leaders have preferred to deny scientific results, such as those produced by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), to keep their agendas and supporters. Although more restricted to biological sciences, another example deserves to be mentioned. The context...

... be appropriated through student practice. She described a research project with middle school students where they investigated a non-scientific topic, engage in dialogs with other students, strategize for a final debate, and then participate in the debate itself. The students are then shown a video of the debate...

.... , Young People's Images of Science ( Open University Press , 1996 ). Daston , L. and Galison , P. , Objectivity ( Zone Books , 2007 ). Erduran , S. and Dagher , Z. , Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other...

..., learning science, and more specifically physics, involves—or should involve—in most of the cases meaningful construction of concepts and models, the development of scientific skills, and enhancement of knowledge about the nature of physics, since all these aspects of scientific understanding are closely...

... Research has addressed these questions. Cluster I: Physics teaching aimed at developing core scientific practices. This cluster includes Chap. 2, titled “Argumentation in Physics Education Research: Recent Trends and Key Themes” by Sibel Erduran and Wonyong Park, both from the United Kingdom; Chap. 3...

...Acknowledgments Financial support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Award No. FA9550-19-1-0059), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Nos. CBET-2143469, CNS-1932026, and CBET-1839675, and Wayne State University was gratefully acknowledged. Ilham Azali Assoumani gratefully...