Nature of Scienceを理科で取り扱うための理論的検討―見方・考え方としてのNOSという新たな方向性―

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The aim of this research is to get some suggestions for NOS teaching strategies by clarifying the breadth of NOS and deepen students’ understanding of it, which is needed to develop school science (Rika) from the perspective of scientific literacy. First, we summarized why students learn NOS, from the perspective of future scientifically literate citizens. Second, we discussed what students need to learn about NOS through a review of previous studies. Finally, given the depth of understanding required for NOS, we discussed how students learn about NOS and how to assess students’ understanding of NOS, based on Ishii’s (2015) idea. As a result, it is clear that we need to regard NOS as a viewpoint 3, which represents the perspective of the epistemological approaches of citizens rather than a strict definition. As for specific NOS instruction in Rika, we argued the following: (1) It is necessary to explicitly address NOS so that students can use NOS as an epistemological approach to Rika, (2) it is necessary to design lessons, units and assessments from the viewpoint of what level of understanding of NOS is to be achieved, (3) it is necessary to learn the content of science in narrative form.