期刊名称：Eurasian Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education
印刷版ISSN：1306-3049
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：9-24
语种：English
出版社：Moment Publications
摘要：Being citizens of the near future, students will have to make decisions requiring an understanding of the interaction of science and technology and its interface with society. Science-technology-society (STS) education has been identified with meeting this goal, but putting theory into practice has always been difficult. Since pre-service science teachers will be the implementers of new reform movements regarding STS issues during their professions, their views on STS issues are crucial. This study aims to explore Turkish pre-service science teachers’ views ( n = 78) on STS issues. Data were collected through an adopted version of “Views on Science–Technology–Society (VOSTS)” instrument. Analysis of data revealed that definition of science is not very explicit among pre-service science teachers whereas most of the participants viewed technology as the application of science. Majority of the pre-service teachers agreed that the scientific knowledge is tentative but they failed to differentiate between hypotheses, laws, and theories.
