RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Prospective primary teachers’ views on the nature of Science
A1 Amador-Rodríguez, Rafael
A1 Adúriz-Bravo, Agustín
A1 Valencia-Cobo, Jose Angel
A1 Reinoso-Tapia, Roberto
A1 Delgado-Iglesias, Jaime
K1 Naturaleza de la Ciencia
K1 Epistemological views
K1 nature of science
K1 science teachers
K1 philosophy of science
K1 epistemological profile
K1 5802 Organización y Planificación de la Educación
AB This article presents the results of a piece of research that analyzed the views on the nature of science (NOS) among student teachers enrolled in programs of Primary Education at two public universities in Spain. Previous studies have reported that science teachers maintain ‘eclectic’ epistemological perspectives on science; in this article, we test if such a hypothesis holds when teachers’ NOS ideas are ‘anchored’ in specific periods and topics of the philosophy of science. We studied 114 prospective teachers attending an undergraduate teaching course with emphasis on the natural sciences at the Universities of Burgos and Valladolid in the period of 2017-18. A Likert-scale questionnaire with 37 items was applied to determine trends in those teachers’ epistemological views on science. The results showed that teachers’ views are mostly correlated with the philosophical period of Logical Positivism/Received View, and to some extent to the period of Recent and Contemporary Accounts. Regarding the classical epistemological topics of correspondence, methodologies, intervention, evolution and representation, teachers’ views could be related to the period of Logical Positivism/Received View and Critical Rationalism, but also to the New Philosophy of Science. The main conclusion of this study is that teachers’ expressed views on NOS are epistemologically eclectic to a much smaller degree when examined with more details concerning specific periods and topics of the philosophy of science
PB OmniaScience
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83241
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83241
LA spa
NO Journal of Technology and Science Education, 11 (2), pp. 403-418
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 01-mar-2026