Teaching teachers and students about the nature of science

Authors

Nelofer Halai, Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development, KarachiFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Abstract

This article advocates the teaching about the nature of science to both pupils in schools and teachers in teacher education institutions in Pakistan. Not knowing about science; teachers tend to continue to teach science as fixed knowledge and not as inquiry and this cycle continues. This cycle needs to be broken. This article first discusses the salient features about the concept of the nature of science and then illustrates these ideas with the help of a simple but a powerful activity which could be used both with teacher educators and pupils in secondary and lower secondary classrooms.

Publication (Name of Journal)

Journal of Educational Research

Recommended Citation

Halai, N. (2010). Teaching teachers and students about the nature of science. Journal of Educational Research, 13(1), 171-179.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_ied_pdck/89