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The Survey Research On The Present Situation Of Primary School Science Teacher’s View Of Nature Of Science

Posted on:2014-02-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330398482772Subject:Science Education
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From20th century, the goal of all countries is to cultivate the citizen who has science accomplishment. From American "2061Project" to Chinese "All citizens’science accomplishment action project", it can prove that all countries attach importance to cultivate the citizen who has science accomplishment. Nature of science as a part of science accomplishment, it has attention by sicience education experts, bacomes popular task of world’s sicence education as well as chinese sicence education new hot pot. From1950s to this day, research about teathers’view of natrue of science has got more attention from sicience education experts and becomes a very important study field in science education.By literature research, the author goes deep in GuiYang city to survey the primary school teachers’concept of nature of science. The goal of this survey is to discover the relationship be ween primary school science teachers’conceptions of nature of science and their sex, professional title, of school age, educational experience, courses and train they have had.According to the statistics, it can be concluded like this:1. Primary science teachers’nature of science is close to the transitional NOS. Primary science teachers have the transitional NOS in three aspects, which include their conception of Socio-Culturally Embedded, Creativity, and Observation vs. Inference. Primary science teachers have the middle type NOS of the transitional NOS and the traditional NOS in4aspects, which include their conception of Tentativeness, Theory vs. Law, Empirically Based, and Subjectivity. Their conception in Tentativeness and Theory vs. Law are more close to the transitional NOS.2. There are no remarkable differences between primary science teachers’conceptions of the NOS and their sex, of school age, educational experience. There are remarkable differences between primary science teachers’conceptions of Theory vs. Law and their professional title. There are remarkable differences between primary science teachers’ conceptions of Observation vs. Inference and if teachers only teacher science. There are remarkable differences between primary science teachers’conceptions of Socio-Culturally Embedded and their courses and train.According to this conclusion,4advices should be put forward as follow:1. Colleges and universities should set up the course of natrue of science for pre-service primary science teachers.2. Natrue of science shoule be taken into account in Teacher training, small discussion group is a good way to do this training.3. Primary science teachers should understand all aspects of natrue of science,especialy in those weak aspects.4. Changing the situation about major teachers take over the primay sience course.
Keywords/Search Tags:Transitional NOS, Nature of science, VNOSD, Primary science teacher
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