The term philosophy of science demonstrates a coherent system of ideas and theories that find its place in the natural sciences, philosophy, and humanities. This means that the main content of the philosophy of science includes a structured approach to the understanding of science, its techniques and strategies. The philosophy of science deals with the principles, subjects, methods, laws, and results of science, and examines them critically, analyzing their logical assets, their objectivity, their proximity to the truth and the degree of certainty. Some thinkers have argued that the philosophy of science is the same science, principles, theories, and theories derived from science and their relationship to each other.
The teachers' perceptions of scientific knowledge, its limits and its potential determine the logic and the image of their mental and cognitive activity during the teaching and learning of science and define the nature, form, and style of experiences and activities proposed for teaching and learning science. Moreover, the failure to establish clear relationships between the science teacher's understanding of science and the ability to use science processes and the implicit philosophy of science form the basis upon which scientific decisions are based. This results from uncertainty about what science is, what its content is, what processes it involves, and how it interacts with the ideas and perceptions of science teachers.
Dear Turki FAHED Almasaeid, Thank you very much for making very important inquiries on the Research Gate portal and inspiring important discussions on particularly important issues.
In my opinion this is an interesting question and it is very good that this question appeared on the research portal Research Gate.
The topics that are the subject of discussion are particularly important and scientifically important and in the context of human life.
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How do philosophical perceptions of science and knowledge affect their educational roles and teaching practices in the 21st century?
this is a very important issue that requires scientific research.
From antiquity, philosophy has given inspiration for the development of other sciences. Some teachings come from specific trends in the history of philosophical thought. Currently, philosophy can give conceptual inspiration for creating new concepts for other sciences and for creating innovative solutions.
In many countries ancient proverbs, folk sayings, aphorisms which were aimed at explaining the essence of wisdom or played the role of wise characteristics, definitions of human life, existence, relationship of man with nature, with other people, the role of man in the world, in the relationship with the surroundings.
However, now we live in other realities of developed or developing countries, in fact technical civilization, in the era of the technological revolution, in information societies, sometimes also surrounded by electronics, in the world of smart city, etc.
In the present reality, the concept of wisdom could be modified in relation to what the wisdom in antiquity was defined.
Or maybe in principle, nothing has changed, maybe it's a question of philosophy, not technology?
However, the contemporary definition of wisdom in the context of conducting scientific research may be interesting.
In view of the above, I am asking you: Can you provide a definition of wisdom in the context of research?
I invite you to the discussion
Does philosophy help in the creation of new research formulas?
In my opinion, philosophy can help in describing the methodology of generating specific new, innovative formulas and research concepts that in the 21st century may concern, among others, the issues of artificial intelligence, data processing in Big Data resources, robotics, biotechnology, new online media and many other developmental fields of knowledge and new technologies.
In view of the above, the current question is: Does philosophy help in the creation of new research formulas?
I invite you to the discussion.
Can philosophy help in the development of science and innovation?
From antiquity, philosophy has given inspiration for the development of other sciences. Some teachings come from specific trends in the history of philosophical thought. Currently, philosophy can give conceptual inspiration for creating new concepts for other sciences and for creating innovative solutions.
I invite you to the discussion
21st century is a progressive development of significance of science with electronic media has create the contribution of the development & the base of knowledge for the entire generation creating the research in the planetary environment with the SUN ,MOON , & planets like MARS in the light of this development sometime back I have my publication under the captioned '' The way to 21 st Century which I submit herewith for your kind perusal with a request to offer your valuable opinion
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
The scientific community needs to share thoughts about the future.
Again It is my pleasure to be one of those people.
Thank you Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dariusz Prokopowicz
AL, Masaeid, Turki Fahed. (2008). Philosophical Perspective of Science Among science teachers and its reflections on their teaching roles. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yarmouk University. (Supervisor: Professor Mohammad Subbarini).
This study aims at examining the Philosophical Perspective of Science among science teachers and its reflections on their teaching roles. It tries to answer the following questions:
What is the Philosophical Perspective of Science that science teachers have in light of three Philosophical Perspective (rationalism, empiricism, and constructivism)?
What are the teaching roles science teachers have in light of Philosophical Perspectives they have?
Do the teaching roles science teachers have differ from of the Philosophical Perspective they have?
To achieve the aim of the study, a test is constructed to classify the 101 participants, an observation list is developed to observe teaching roles of 12 science teachers and an interview sheet is prepared for 12 teachers who show sound differences between their thoughts and teaching acts during science teaching.
The results of the study indicate that the Empirical Philosophical perspective of science is the dominant philosophical perspective of science that participants hold compared with the Rational and Constructivist perspectives. The results also indicate that all teaching roles do not meet the Philosophical Perspective of Science that science teachers have, where the ratio of frequency of the teaching roles in light of Philosophical Perspective of Science that science teacher have is less than 50% of all the teaching roles (acts) observed.
The results of participants' interviews indicate that the definitions of science philosophy the participants have are short, brief, and consisting of one idea, and all the definitions are classified in the content of science. The results also indicate that half of the participants believe that their teaching roles included in a (lecturer, question answerer and discussion leader) category, and this meets the rational Philosophical Perspective of Science; They also believe that the perfect teaching role for science teacher is also included in this category. On the other hand, one-fourth of participants believe that their teaching roles included in a (guide, examiner and assessor) category, and this meets the empirical Philosophical Perspective of Science, and one-fourth of
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the participants believe that their teaching roles included in a (facilitator, inquiry and discovery planner) category, and this meets the constructivist Philosophical Perspective of Science.
The results reveal that one-third of the participants show disagreement between what they believe about teaching roles and the Philosophical Perspective of Science, they show disagreement between the personal Perspective and what they do in the classes. Concerning the causes of differences between teachers' roles and the Philosophical Perspective of Science the results reveal that the causes related to teachers are popular than those related to educational environment. Only two participants show causes related to students, and one teacher show causes related to subject matter (textbook).
In view of the results, the study recommends to increase awareness for the philosophy of science in school science. It also urges the ministry of education to perform training workshops to develop philosophy of science among science teachers. As for researchers, the present study encourages them to investigate this subject.
Key words: Philosophical Perspective of Science, philosophy of science, empirical perspective, rational perspective, constructivist perspective, teaching science roles.
The quest for truth has led to parallel and complementary schools of thought- one dominated by faith and belief in God (which is also a creation of humans) and other led by scientific temper which believes in scientific evidence. Whether it is Love for God or Fear of God; both guide our behaviour and therefore metaphysical approach should be used for studies.
In teachers' education, the teachers need to work on two ways: knowledge and skills. Knowledge means all the theories, concepts, facts and logic concerning the subject matter. while the skills mean the teaching skills that include planning, methods, strategies, thinking questions and two mind hemispheres , teaching styles, reflective teaching, classroom management, using media and others. 21st century science teachers have to build their knowledge concerning the science that they teach and being skillful in teaching the science in way reflecting their perceptions and knowledge. This enables the students to get the topics and even internalize the knowledge in way helps them to reflect what they have learnt in real life situations .
Dear Turki FAHED Almasaeid
Very nice and realty question, deals with the important issue faced and facing the science's teachers . You mentioned " philosophy of science includes a structured approach to the understanding of science " i agree 100% with that phrase, because as an example now we knew very well about " black hole" and " Theory of Relativity" from the clever philosophy (OF SCIENCE) which was the main content of the movie "interstellar" ... Philosophy of science gives people more understanding, by making them more thinking, more logical, UNTIL MORE LOVE, and harmony with life.
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