Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science: Some New Ideas

Autor/inn/en	Irzik, Gürol; Nola, Robert
Titel	Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science: Some New Ideas
Quelle	In: Science & Education, 32 (2023) 5, S.1227-1245 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Irzik, Gürol)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0926-7220
DOI	10.1007/s11191-022-00375-7
Schlagwörter	Scientific Principles; Science Education; Scientific Concepts; Observation; Science Experiments; Methods; Values + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Beobachtung; Method; Methode; Wertbegriff
Abstract	The family resemblance approach to nature of science is receiving increasing attention by science educators since its inception about a decade ago. Many scholars of science education have contributed and continue to contribute to it not only theoretically but also by applying it empirically to a wide range of areas such as curriculum and textbook analyses, pre-service teacher training, undergraduate teaching and, STEM education. This article aims to develop the family resemblance approach further. We do this in several ways. First, we clarify its foundations in a way to reveal that it provides not only a domain-specific, but at the same time a domain-general conceptualization of nature of science. Second, we expand the structure of science as a social institution by adding a new category to it, i.e., the reward system, and justify it. Third, we show that two of the most common elements of the category "practices," namely, observation and experimentation, display the character of family resemblance. Then, we explore this for methods and values in science. Finally, we discuss the possibility of a rapprochement between the family resemblance approach and the consensus view. (As Provided).
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