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SCIENCE & EDUCATION
Volume 18, Issue 9, Pages 1177-1192Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-009-9189-3
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In this paper we discuss the foundations and process of design of a research-informed instructional unit aimed for pre-service science teacher education. The unit covers some key ideas on the nature of science (around methodology, theory change, scientific inference and explanation, values, gender issues) anchoring them in a well-known episode from the history of science-the 'discovery' of radium by the Curies. Such episode is mainly examined as reconstructed in the 1997 French commercial film 'Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz'. Pre-service science teachers are required to solve three tasks, individually and in small groups; those tasks are respectively centred around: (1) the distinction between 'discovering' and 'inventing'; (2) scientific modelling via abduction; and (3) the extended hagiographic treatment of the figure of Madame Curie. Plenary debates around the tasks aim at acquainting pre-service science teachers with some powerful concepts of twentieth century philosophy of science.
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