2012
DOI: 10.1080/14926156.2012.679995
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Encouraging Uncertainty in the “Scientific Method”: Promoting Understanding in the Processes of Science With Preservice Teachers

Abstract: Teachers' feelings of uncertainty are an overlooked, though crucial, condition necessary for the promotion of educational change. This article investigates the feelings of uncertainty that preservice teachers have toward the conduct of science as inquiry and the extent to which methods courses can confront and embrace those uncertainties. Our work indicates that veneers of certainty exist at both the personal and institutional level and that by challenging these certainties throughout the methods courses, oppo… Show more

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