Publication details
The Role of Theory in University Science Education
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of IAC-TLEl 2017 |
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| Web | Proceedings of IAC-TLEl 2017 |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | science education; theory of science; critical thinking; |
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| Description | Recently, there are many educational debates about appropriate educational approaches for improving scientific thinking in school science curriculum. For most people the science is what scientists are doing in research institutes, where science exists in its concentrated form. But in fact, the science resides in the minds of all educated and uneducated people. The scientific method represents a way of critical thinking. Science strengthens the ability to have an opinion founded more facts than personal feelings. We assume that scientific thinking provides many skills for cognitive development of every person. Those skills can be transferred to other learning in general social contexts. Our research study presents the university students opinions and ideas which could help identify the causes of the problem why students get taught so little about the science as whole? |