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 \nFull Length Research Paper  \nBeliefs of preschool teacher candidates about the nature of science  \nGüzin Özyılmaz  \nFaculty of Education, Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey.  \nAccepted 6 October, 2020  \n\n| ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>The aim of science education is to enable children to become “science-literate.” Science literacy is defined as taking responsibility for and making decisions about situations requiring scientific understanding and having sufficient knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding of values to put their decisions into practice. Revealing teachers’ beliefs can help to understand the types of experiences presented by teachers in their classrooms. Inadequate understandings and misbeliefs of teachers shape the first perceptions of children about the NOS when they are formally introduced with science education in their early childhood. Most of the studies were also performed with science teachers and there have been few studies conducted with preschool teachers. Therefore, the present study was directed towards determining NOS beliefs of preschool teacher candidates. To achieve this aim, Nature of Science Beliefs Scale (NOSBS), developed by Özcan and Turgut (2014), was administered to the preschool teacher candidates studying in Preschool Education Department of Buca Education Faculty at Dokuz Eylül University in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, the NOS beliefs of the teacher candidates were found to be acceptable in general. While the findings of this study are consistent with those revealed in several relevant studies in the literature.\u003Cbr>Keywords: Nature of science, beliefs, teacher candidates, early childhood. |\n| --- |\n| E-mail: guzin. ozyi[lmaz@deu.edu.tr. Tel:](lmaz@deu.edu.tr. Tel:) 90-2324204882. |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nThe aim of science education is to enable children to become “science-literate.” Science literacy is defined as taking responsibility for and making decisions about situations requiring scientific understanding and having sufficient knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding of values to put their decisions into practice. Three fundamentals of science can be scientific knowledge (scientific laws and theories), scientific process skills and the nature of science (features of scientific knowledge) .  \nOne of the most important dimensions of science and technology literacy is understanding the nature of science (NOS) (Bjønness and Knain, 2018) .  \nThere is an ongoing debate about what the NOS is. There are characteristics of scientific knowledge acquired in each stage of education especially from early childhood to university and agreed on by science educators. Lederman (1992) stated that the NOS is“values and hypotheses inherent to the development of  \nscientific knowledge”. The NOS can be simply defined as what science is, how it functions, how scientific knowledge is created, how a scientific community comprised of scientists is organized, how the society influences science and how the society is affected by scientific developments (İrez, 2016) . Among other fundamentals of the NOS are values and beliefs. In addition, the NOS is related to sociology and epistemology of science and scientific methods. McComas et al. (1998) defined the NOS as an intersection of different disciplines (history, sociology, psychology and philosophy of science) .  \nEfforts to give an insight into the NOS started in early 1900s (Lederman, 1992) when understanding the NOS was regarded as understanding scientific processes and methods. At present, the NOS is not interpreted from the general positivist notion. It is explicated by using a postmodern approach in reference to the perspectives of  \nphilosophers like Kuhn and Hanson and the relativistic structure of science. According to this approach, science is a subjective human attempt based on theory and culture, though it","cbCaishE2DMrLkxH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaishE2DMrLkxH","pdf",350806,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Science literacy and NOS\n## Definitions and ongoing debate on NOS\n## Historical development and educational impact\n# Accepted 6 October, 2020","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the study regarding preschool teacher candidates?\",\"answer\":\"To determine preschool teacher candidates’ beliefs about the nature of science (NOS).\"},{\"question\":\"How is science literacy defined in the document?\",\"answer\":\"Science literacy is defined as taking responsibility for and making decisions about situations requiring scientific understanding, supported by sufficient knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to apply decisions in practice.\"},{\"question\":\"What instrument is used to assess NOS beliefs?\",\"answer\":\"The Nature of Science Beliefs Scale (NOSBS), developed by Özcan and Turgut (2014), is administered to the candidates.\"}]","Beliefs of preschool teacher candidates about the nature of science - Full Length Research Paper | PDF",1792070763,25]