The Sophisticated Inductive Approach and Science Education
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 30:1365-1369 (2011)
Abstract
Introduction: The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between sophisticated view of induction and science
education. Method: This study is a critical review on the relation between philosophical approaches to science and science
education. Thus, an analytic method is used in investigating the theories of science and their relationship to science education.
Results: Analysing the arguments against induction, we argue that the sophisticated view of induction is not only resistant
against the critiques but also inspiring for science education. Conclusion: This paper concludes that the sophisticated view of
induction provides the merits of both positivism and falsificationism in science and science education while avoiding their
disadvantages. Accordingly, to avoid positivism, science education should reinforce students' imagination and theory
development and to avoid falsificationism, it should embrace observation and induction.
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