id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_c4kdbgifuncu7aqizl536ypi3q Cathleen C. Loving The scientific theory profile: A philosophy of science model for science teachers 1991 28 .pdf application/pdf 6920 567 56 *Science Education; Theories IDENTIFIERS *Philosophy of Science; *Scientific Theory Profile teachers--called the Scientific Theory Profileconsists of placing The model developed for use with science ttacherscalbd the Scientific natural), and the y-axis being their views on scientific theories Realist, Ronald Giere offers a cognitive approach to explaining theory science teachers in developing their ova views on the nature of use of the Scientific Theory Profile in a course for science teachers. scientific theories as both powerful and the best explanations that science His position on the Scientific Theory Profile is logic of good scientific theories, and Kuhn with the context within which they discipline-bound like Kuhn's reigning theories, but are universal themes-science is good enough for Laudan, but to those in Quadrant C, the Rational Viewing reigning scientific theories as the best explanations and theories, Giere joins most contemporary philosophers of science. The Scientific Theory Profile can help science teachers develop their own ./cache/work_c4kdbgifuncu7aqizl536ypi3q.pdf ./txt/work_c4kdbgifuncu7aqizl536ypi3q.txt