Changing the Focus: From Nature of Science (NOS) to Features of Science (FOS)

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Reconceptualised family resemblance approach to nature of science in pre-service science teacher education (2018, background): “All sessions utilised a set of visual images that are collectively referred to as ‘Generative Images of Science’ by Erduran and Dagher (2014a) (Figure 2).”
Nature of Science, Scientific Inquiry, and Socio-Scientific Issues Arising from Genetics: A Pathway to Developing a Scientifically Literate Citizenry (2014, background): “Unfortunately, readers have read past our words (Lederman 2007; Matthews 2012; Irzik and Nola 2011) and think we are stressing more than we are.”
A Critical Review of Students’ and Teachers’ Understandings of Nature of Science (2019, background): “Matthews’ (2012) proposal to use features of science instead of NOS is based on the idea that most of the elements of the consensus view need to be “more philosophically and historically refined and developed in order to be useful to teachers and students,” and he proposed a list of 18 features of…”