Nature-of-Science Literacy in Benchmarks and Standards: Post-Modern/Relativist or Modern/Realist?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Nature-of-Science Literacy in Benchmarks and Standards: Post-Modern/Relativist or Modern/Realist?

AU - Good, Ron

AU - Shymansky, James

N1 - The complexity of science is described in the two major science education reform documents in the US: Benchmarks for Science Literacy (1993) and National Science Education Standards (1996). Some have seen them as too 'postmodern' while others have charged they are too 'modern' in their descriptions of the nature of science.An analysis of the documents shows how each charge might arise.

PY - 2001/1/1

Y1 - 2001/1/1

UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1008789610357

U2 - 10.1023/A:1008789610357

DO - 10.1023/A:1008789610357

M3 - Article

VL - 10

JO - Science Education

JF - Science Education

ER -