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Developing a Graduate Level Science Education Course on the Nature of Science

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The purpose of this report is to outline our experiences designing and teaching a course on the nature of science to science education graduate students. By addressing questions related to the creation of a new university course, the design of the course syllabus, and the transformation of the syllabus into instruction, we hope to make our craft knowledge more accessible to others who create such courses.

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    David C. Eichinger & Sandra K. Abell

  2. Department of Educational Development, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA

    Zoubeida R. Dagher

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Eichinger, D.C., Abell, S.K. & Dagher, Z.R. Developing a Graduate Level Science Education Course on the Nature of Science. Science & Education 6, 417–429 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008673508960

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