Science & Education

Article	Citations
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	98
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	68
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	64
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	64
Navigating Post-truth: Challenges and Opportunities for Science Education Through Evolving Scientific Literacy Visions	53
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	51
Editorial Note: February 2026	51
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	47
The Intersection Between Social-Institutional Aspects of Nature of Science and Social Justice in Natural History Museum Exhibitions	46
Sustainability as Living Architecture	43
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	38
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	35
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	32
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	31
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	31
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	30
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	29
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	29
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	25
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	25
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	25
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	24
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	22
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	22
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	20

Chinese Grade 12 Students’ Cognition and Coping Ways of Uncertainty in Science: A Study Based on Science Reading Texts	20
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	20
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	19
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	18
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	17
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	16
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	16
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	16
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	16
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	16
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	16
Impact of Argument-Driven Inquiry Activities on Pre-service Science Teachers’ Views of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry in the Context of Climate Change Education	15
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	14
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	14
The Heart is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts	14
Teaching Nature of Science: A Pedagogy of Practice Framework for Teachers’ Professional Development	14
Political Science as a Science	14
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	14
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	14
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	13
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	13
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	13
Fostering Epistemological Vigilance in Physics Teacher Education: A Didactic Methodology Grounded in History of Science and the Notion of Hypotheses	13
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	13
Theoretical Suggestions for the Nature of Integrated STEM Education: Notes on a “Poietic” STEM	12
Exploring England’s Secondary Educational Policy Discourses from the Perspective of a Social Justice and Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education	12
Scientists in the Textbook	12
Editorial Note: October 2025	12
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	12
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education	12
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	12
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	12
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	11
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	11
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	11
Opening the Black Box of Scientific Practices	11
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	10
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	10
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	10
Associations between High School Students’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology, Sense of Belonging, and Physics Achievement	10
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	10
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	10
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	9
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	9
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	9
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	9
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	9
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9

Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	9
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	9
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	8
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	8
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	8
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	8
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	8
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	8
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	8
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	8
Preservice Teacher Interest and Willingness to Use Stories from the History of Science	8
Astronomy and Culture	8
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	8
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	8
Core Themes in Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Students and University Teachers in Norway and Germany	7
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	7
Nature of Science in Science Educational Videos	7
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	7
Nature of Engineering	7
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
The Impact of a Woman Role Model on Students’ Understanding of NOS and Motivation to do Science	6
‘Happy Stories’ of Swedish Exceptionalism	6
Indigenous Knowledge and Practices of the Tigray People: How Do Teachers and Students Perceive Its Integration in Science and Mathematics Education?	6
Rethinking Nature of STEM: Theoretical Insights and the Development of EPISTEMIK-Fire as an Assessment Tool	6
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
A Professional Development Program to Improve NOSI Views and Lesson Plan Design Skills of Science Teachers Utilizing Argumentation-Driven Inquiry	6
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	6
The Critical Role of Understanding Epistemic Practices in Science Teaching Using Wicked Problems	6
Beauty, Pleasure, and Vital Fluids in the Eighteenth Century Sexuality Education-A Hermeneutic Reading of the Linnaean Lecture About the Way to Become Together	6
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
A Comparative Epistemic Network Analysis of the Nature of Science in Turkish National Physics Curriculum and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Physics Curriculum	6
Scientific Values and the Value of Science	6
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science in Middle-School Science Textbooks from Brazil and South Korea Regarding Environmental Issues	6
Politicizing ‘Learning by Doing’: Shiono Naomichi and the Cultivation of the ‘Japanese Spirit’ in Primary and Secondary Science Education in Japan from 1931–1958	5
Science Education in an Age of Unnatural Disasters: An Introduction to the Special Issue	5
Did Darwin Work with Plants? Darwinism, Evolution and Education in a Botanical Garden	5
List of Reviewers—2025	5
Heroes and Helpmeets	5
Investigating Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Views of Nature of Science in a Philippine Teacher Education Institution	5
Using the History of the Super-Organismic-Plant-Community Concept To Help Students Understand the Nature of Science	5
Epistemological and Didactic Reflections on Teacher Training in France	5
Technology‑Embedded Argument‑DrivenInquiry in Preservice Chemistry Teacher Education	5
Reconstructing the Past	5
Intercultural Education as Dialogue Between Knowledge Systems: Elements of a Theoretical Framework	5
History of Pressure Implemented in a Nature of Science Professional Development Program for Science Teachers	5
STEM and Non-STEM Misconceptions About Evolution: Findings from 5 Years of Data	4
Examining Bhutanese Science Teachers’ Epistemic Views of Scientific Inquiry	4
Evaluation of the Level of Selected Inquiry Skills Among Grammar School Students	4
Self-Study and Discussion Promote Students’ Science Learning	4
Epistemic Practices Created by Discursive Interactions between Pre-service Chemistry Teachers	4
The Influence of Real-Context Scientific Activities on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Thinking and Practice of Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry	4
The Value of the Philosophy of Science in Senior High School Science Education from the Perspective of the Nature of Science	4
Bhutanese Primary Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs of Science	4
Analysing the Nature of Science in the Brazilian Common Core Curriculum	4
Making Argumentation-Based Learning and Teaching Happen: Exploring the Development of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Argumentation Competencies	4
Preschool Teachers’ Argumentation on Socioscientific Issues Scenarios	4
White Supremacy, Scientific Racism, and Extractivism	4
Not Wrong, But Not a Good Answer: Assessing Discipline-Specific Quality of Student Explanations	4
Beyond Representation: Epistemic Justice in Science Education through the Historical Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge	4
Natural History Museum Guides’ Conceptions on the Integration of the Nature of Science	4
Discourses on Science and Its Teaching in Chilean Pre-service Teacher Education: An Approach to Scientific Culture	4
Teacher Talk Supporting Student Progressive Discourse in Science	4
Unmasking Gender Stereotypes	4
Students Increased Their Conceptual Understanding of Biodiversity After a Modeling-Based Teaching and Learning Sequence	4
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School	4
The Power of Tentative Truth: The Impacts of Enhanced Science Instruction on Student Paranormal Beliefs	4
Reframing Chemical Thinking Through the Lens of Disciplinary Essential Questions and Perspectives for Teaching and Learning Chemistry	4
Mozambican Preservice Chemistry Teachers’ Performance when Analysing Textbook Analogies About the Atom	4
Teachers’ Use of Rational Questioning to Support Students’ Collective Argumentation Through 5E-Based Flipped Classroom Approach Using GeoGebra	3
Exploring the Impact of a Task-specific Warning to Overcome Intuitive Interference: Humble Lesson on How to Teach in the Context of Representational Plurality	3
Abduction as a Mode of Inference in Science Education	3
A Mythical Exploration of Evolutions and Existence	3
Trust in Science and Science Education—Part 2	3
From Inquiry to Knowledge: Examining the Impact of Directed Inquiry Activities on Students’ Scientific Understanding and the Elimination of Misconceptions About Selected Human Organ Systems	3
A Didactic and Metatheoretical Characterization of Computational Simulations in Science Education	3
Explicating a Satisfying Definition of the Scientist	3
How Scientists Themselves May be Responsible for Science Distrust	3

Pre-service Teachers' Progression in Incorporating Science in Social Context in the Classroom	3
The Hidden Lessons of Scientific Writing: How Language Can Shape What Students Learn About the Nature of Science	3
The Significance of Science Content Knowledge for Socioscientific Reasoning Competency: Evidence from SSI Instruction on Environmental Topics Based on the SIMBL Model	3
Students’ Proof Construction through Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: The Perspectives of Habermas’ Theory of Rationality and Duval’s Theory of Registers of Semiotic Representation	3
Let them research with	3
Nepali Cultural Worldview as Eclectic Space in Transformative Action Research for Post-Critical Scientific Literacy	3
Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Instructional Design for Developing the Scientific Competency and Interdisciplinary Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers	3
A Study of Learning Progression During Open Inquiry in Year 9: Learning to Do and Learning About Scientific Inquiry	3
Whose Math Education Is It Anyway? The Case of Twentieth-Century Belgium	3
Turning the Plurality of Chemistry into a Resource for Learning: A Core Competency of Chemistry Teachers	3
Of Mirrors, Tools and Trails	3
Eye Tracking in Science Education Research: Comprehensive Literature Review	3
Historical Errors as Resources for Understanding Science	3
Challenging Modeling for Ohm’s Law through Open-Ended In-depth Inquiry	3
Physics Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understanding of Scientific Literacy	3
Investigating the Nature of Science in Reformed Chinese Biology Curriculum Standards	3
Trust in Science and Science Education — Part 1	3
Is the Effect of Educational Attainments on Trust in Scientists Underestimated?	3
A review of The International Handbook of Physics Education Research: Teaching Physics	3
Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Physics Curriculum Standards over the Past Two Decades	3
Elaborating Nature of Engineering Through Family Resemblance Approach	3
From Cultural Awareness to Integration: Faculty Attempt to Incorporate the Outside-of-School Geometry into Geometry Teaching	3
Exploring the Nature of Science Conceptions of University Science Professors Using the Family Resemblance Framework	3
Exploring Middle School Science Teachers’ Error-Reaction Patterns by Classroom Discourse Analysis	3
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Extended Cognition in Science Learning Contexts	3
Portrayals of Scientists in Science Textbooks of Secondary Schools in Iran: A Qualitative Study in the History of Science	3
Indonesian Prospective Teachers’ Scientific Habits of Mind:A Cross‑Grade Study in the Context of Local and Global Socio‑scientific Issues	3
Upper Secondary School Science Teachers' Values in Sweden:	2
Correction to: Korean In-service Science Teachers’ Perceptions of NOS: Focusing on a Reconceptualized FRA-to-NOS	2
Attacking a Straw Man? A theoretical alternative and an exploratory empirical approach on how to “inoculate” students against astrology	2
Improving the Argumentation Abilities of High School Students in China via the Toulmin Argumentation Pattern, Popper’s Falsificationism, and the Game of Eleusis	2
Editorial Note	2
Representations of Nature of Science in Science Textbooks	2
Learning About Different Models of Theory Change Using an Adapted Mystery Tube Activity in Science Teacher Education	2
“L’Avenir” and the Courage to Make the Future What We Need	2
Lineage Thinking in Evolutionary Biology: How to Improve the Teaching of Tree Thinking	2
Embodiment Matters in Knowledge Building	2
A Conceptual Framework on Imaginative Education-Based Engineering Curriculum	2
Why Teachers (Do Not) Integrate History of Science into Physics Courses	2
Confronting Imminent Challenges in Humane Epistemic Agency in Science Education: An Interview with ChatGPT	2
A New Perspective on the Evaluation of Pupils' Inquiry Skills Using Four-tier Test	2
General Education Biology Lab Syllabi in the US	2
My Grades Are not as Good as a Scientist	2
Curiosity Empowerment for Mathematics Learning	2
Improving Students’ Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Review of the Literature	2
Exploring the boundaries in an interdisciplinary context through the Family Resemblance Approach: The Dialogue Between Physics and Mathematics	2
Collaborative Learning with Artificial Intelligence Speakers	2
The Chimera, the Robot Artist, and the Cardboard Hand	2
Is Science “Tentative”?	2
A Liberal Arts Curriculum that Situates Science While Promoting STEM Graduation	2
Exploring Nature of Science Understanding, Science Self-efficacy and Their Relationships Among Secondary School Pre-service Science Teachers in Ethiopia	2
Impact of GPT on the Academic Ecosystem	2
The Concept of Weight as Reflecting the Epistemological Changes in Physics	2
Korean In-service Science Teachers’ Perceptions of NOS: Focusing on a Reconceptualized FRA-to-NOS	2
Comparative Analysis of Engineering Elements in Five Chinese Junior High School Physics Textbooks	2
Teaching Mastery Through Visualization	2
EI Search: How to Search for Knowledge in the Age of Generative AI	2
Can Generative AI and ChatGPT Outperform Humans on Cognitive-Demanding Problem-Solving Tasks in Science?	2
Understanding STEM Teachers’ Power Distance Values from a Sociocultural Perspective on Interdisciplinary Collaboration	2
Secondary Science Teachers’ Instructional Strategies for Promoting the Construction of Scientific Explanations	2
Toward Understanding Science as a Whole	2
Representation of Changes about Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	2
Index Collaborative Analysis of Green Chemistry Literacy and Public Literacy of Ideological and Political Consciousness	2
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics	2
Art and Science	2
Reasoning in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Nature of Science for Critical Science Agency—Perspectives from Upper Secondary Students	2
Comparison of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Teachers’ Perceptions of Nature of Science and Domains of Science	2
Integration of Engineering Practices into Primary Science Classrooms	2