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Discussions for linking the Nature of Science (NOS) with Scientific Inquiry  

Park, Jong-Won (Chonnam National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.28, no.7, 2008 , pp. 749-758 More about this Journal
Abstract
Even though the importance of the nature of science (NOS) and scientific inquiry in science learning have been emphasized by many science educators and science curriculums, the link between the NOS and scientific inquiry has not been discussed sufficiently. In this article, I discussed that various aspects of NOS are already embedded in defining and characterizing the authentic scientific inquiry and that we need to have special concern about how the NOS should be treated and interpreted when introducing it into scientific inquiry. And I summarized two approaches to teach the NOS and scientific inquiry; teaching the NOS through scientific inquiry and teaching scientific inquiry through the NOS. Finally, some next studies based on this article are introduced.
Keywords
the nature of science; scientific inquiry; teaching approaches; authentic way for conducting scientific inquiry;
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