Science Teachers’ Beliefs about Nature of Science and Science-Technology-Society Issues

Abstract

Teachers' educational beliefs are important because beliefs influence and guide teaching behavior and decisions within classrooms. In the case of science education, the role of beliefs is much more demanding, as science consists of a vast array of knowledge components (facts, laws and theories), but also an innovative and interdisciplinary set of historical, social and epistemological components that deeply permeate the former (contents "about" science).