Science & Education

Article	Citations
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	84
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	59
The Intersection Between Social-Institutional Aspects of Nature of Science and Social Justice in Natural History Museum Exhibitions	51
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	46
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	44
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	39
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	39
Editorial Note: February 2026	39
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	39
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	38
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	30
Sustainability as Living Architecture	30
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	27
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	26
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	25
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	24
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	23
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	23
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	22
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	22
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	22
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	22
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	21
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	20
Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	20

The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	19
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	19
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	18
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	18
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	18
Chinese Grade 12 Students’ Cognition and Coping Ways of Uncertainty in Science: A Study Based on Science Reading Texts	17
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	17
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	16
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	16
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	15
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	15
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	14
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	14
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	14
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	13
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	13
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	13
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	13
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	13
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	12
Political Science as a Science	12
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	12
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	12
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	12
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	11
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	11
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
Editorial Note: October 2025	11
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	11
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	11
Theoretical Suggestions for the Nature of Integrated STEM Education: Notes on a “Poietic” STEM	10
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	10
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education	10
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	10
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	10
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	10
Exploring England’s Secondary Educational Policy Discourses from the Perspective of a Social Justice and Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education	10
Scientists in the Textbook	10
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	10
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	9
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	9
Associations between High School Students’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology, Sense of Belonging, and Physics Achievement	9
Preservice Teacher Interest and Willingness to Use Stories from the History of Science	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	9
Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	9
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	9
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	9
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	9

Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	9
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	9
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	8
Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	8
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	8
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	8
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	8
Astronomy and Culture	8
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	8
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	7
Nature of Science in Science Educational Videos	7
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	7
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	7
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	7
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	7
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	6
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	6
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Core Themes in Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Students and University Teachers in Norway and Germany	6
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	6
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	6
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
The Impact of a Woman Role Model on Students’ Understanding of NOS and Motivation to do Science	6
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	5
The Critical Role of Understanding Epistemic Practices in Science Teaching Using Wicked Problems	5
History of Pressure Implemented in a Nature of Science Professional Development Program for Science Teachers	5
List of Reviewers—2025	5
Did Darwin Work with Plants? Darwinism, Evolution and Education in a Botanical Garden	5
Indigenous Knowledge and Practices of the Tigray People: How Do Teachers and Students Perceive Its Integration in Science and Mathematics Education?	5
‘Happy Stories’ of Swedish Exceptionalism	5
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	5
Intercultural Education as Dialogue Between Knowledge Systems: Elements of a Theoretical Framework	5
Using the History of the Super-Organismic-Plant-Community Concept To Help Students Understand the Nature of Science	5
Reconstructing the Past	5
Rethinking Nature of STEM: Theoretical Insights and the Development of EPISTEMIK-Fire as an Assessment Tool	5
A Professional Development Program to Improve NOSI Views and Lesson Plan Design Skills of Science Teachers Utilizing Argumentation-Driven Inquiry	5
Beauty, Pleasure, and Vital Fluids in the Eighteenth Century Sexuality Education-A Hermeneutic Reading of the Linnaean Lecture About the Way to Become Together	5
Epistemological and Didactic Reflections on Teacher Training in France	5
Developing Primary School Students’ Abilities to Evaluate the Evidence of Written Scientific Arguments	5
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
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science in Middle-School Science Textbooks from Brazil and South Korea Regarding Environmental Issues	5
Scientific Values and the Value of Science	5
Technology‑Embedded Argument‑DrivenInquiry in Preservice Chemistry Teacher Education	4
Teacher Talk Supporting Student Progressive Discourse in Science	4
Investigating Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Views of Nature of Science in a Philippine Teacher Education Institution	4
Unmasking Gender Stereotypes	4
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School	4
Heroes and Helpmeets	4
Evaluation of the Level of Selected Inquiry Skills Among Grammar School Students	4
Students Increased Their Conceptual Understanding of Biodiversity After a Modeling-Based Teaching and Learning Sequence	4
Making Argumentation-Based Learning and Teaching Happen: Exploring the Development of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Argumentation Competencies	4
White Supremacy, Scientific Racism, and Extractivism	4
Examining Bhutanese Science Teachers’ Epistemic Views of Scientific Inquiry	4
Self-Study and Discussion Promote Students’ Science Learning	4
Science Education in an Age of Unnatural Disasters: An Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Preschool Teachers’ Argumentation on Socioscientific Issues Scenarios	4
Analysing the Nature of Science in the Brazilian Common Core Curriculum	4
STEM and Non-STEM Misconceptions About Evolution: Findings from 5 Years of Data	4
Whose Math Education Is It Anyway? The Case of Twentieth-Century Belgium	3
Abduction as a Mode of Inference in Science Education	3
Indonesian Prospective Teachers’ Scientific Habits of Mind:A Cross‑Grade Study in the Context of Local and Global Socio‑scientific Issues	3
Trust in Science and Science Education—Part 2	3
Investigating the Nature of Science in Reformed Chinese Biology Curriculum Standards	3
Beyond Representation: Epistemic Justice in Science Education through the Historical Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge	3
Epistemic Practices Created by Discursive Interactions between Pre-service Chemistry Teachers	3
Discourses on Science and Its Teaching in Chilean Pre-service Teacher Education: An Approach to Scientific Culture	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
A Mythical Exploration of Evolutions and Existence	3
Not Wrong, But Not a Good Answer: Assessing Discipline-Specific Quality of Student Explanations	3
Challenging Modeling for Ohm’s Law through Open-Ended In-depth Inquiry	3
Portrayals of Scientists in Science Textbooks of Secondary Schools in Iran: A Qualitative Study in the History of Science	3
A Study of Learning Progression During Open Inquiry in Year 9: Learning to Do and Learning About Scientific Inquiry	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
Multivariate Analysis of Beliefs in Pseudoscience and Superstitions Among Pre-service Teachers in Spain	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
Reframing Chemical Thinking Through the Lens of Disciplinary Essential Questions and Perspectives for Teaching and Learning Chemistry	3
Elaborating Nature of Engineering Through Family Resemblance Approach	3
The Power of Tentative Truth: The Impacts of Enhanced Science Instruction on Student Paranormal Beliefs	3
The Value of the Philosophy of Science in Senior High School Science Education from the Perspective of the Nature of Science	3
Nepali Cultural Worldview as Eclectic Space in Transformative Action Research for Post-Critical Scientific Literacy	3
Physics Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understanding of Scientific Literacy	3
Explicating a Satisfying Definition of the Scientist	3
A Didactic and Metatheoretical Characterization of Computational Simulations in Science Education	3
From Cultural Awareness to Integration: Faculty Attempt to Incorporate the Outside-of-School Geometry into Geometry Teaching	3
The Influence of Real-Context Scientific Activities on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Thinking and Practice of Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry	3
A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education	3
Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Instructional Design for Developing the Scientific Competency and Interdisciplinary Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers	3
Natural History Museum Guides’ Conceptions on the Integration of the Nature of Science	3
Mozambican Preservice Chemistry Teachers’ Performance when Analysing Textbook Analogies About the Atom	3
Bhutanese Primary Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs of Science	3
Is the Effect of Educational Attainments on Trust in Scientists Underestimated?	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
Teachers’ Use of Rational Questioning to Support Students’ Collective Argumentation Through 5E-Based Flipped Classroom Approach Using GeoGebra	3
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Extended Cognition in Science Learning Contexts	2
How Scientists Themselves May be Responsible for Science Distrust	2
Confronting Imminent Challenges in Humane Epistemic Agency in Science Education: An Interview with ChatGPT	2
Curiosity Empowerment for Mathematics Learning	2
Reasoning in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Lineage Thinking in Evolutionary Biology: How to Improve the Teaching of Tree Thinking	2
General Education Biology Lab Syllabi in the US	2
EI Search: How to Search for Knowledge in the Age of Generative AI	2
My Grades Are not as Good as a Scientist	2
Representation of Changes about Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	2
Exploring Middle School Science Teachers’ Error-Reaction Patterns by Classroom Discourse Analysis	2
The Disappearance of Natural History, Fieldwork, and Live Organism Study from American Biology Teacher Education	2
The Significance of Science Content Knowledge for Socioscientific Reasoning Competency: Evidence from SSI Instruction on Environmental Topics Based on the SIMBL Model	2
The Hidden Lessons of Scientific Writing: How Language Can Shape What Students Learn About the Nature of Science	2
Comparative Analysis of Engineering Elements in Five Chinese Junior High School Physics Textbooks	2
A Liberal Arts Curriculum that Situates Science While Promoting STEM Graduation	2
Can Generative AI and ChatGPT Outperform Humans on Cognitive-Demanding Problem-Solving Tasks in Science?	2
Embodiment Matters in Knowledge Building	2
Is Science “Tentative”?	2
Teaching Mastery Through Visualization	2
“L’Avenir” and the Courage to Make the Future What We Need	2
Exploring the Nature of Science Conceptions of University Science Professors Using the Family Resemblance Framework	2
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Socioscientific Reasoning During a Decision-Making Activity in the Context of COVID-19	2
Of Mirrors, Tools and Trails	2
Eye Tracking in Science Education Research: Comprehensive Literature Review	2
Let them research with	2
Upper Secondary School Science Teachers' Values in Sweden:	2
Integration of Engineering Practices into Primary Science Classrooms	2
Toward Understanding Science as a Whole	2
Exploring Nature of Science Understanding, Science Self-efficacy and Their Relationships Among Secondary School Pre-service Science Teachers in Ethiopia	2
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics	2
Pre-service Teachers' Progression in Incorporating Science in Social Context in the Classroom	2
Why Teachers (Do Not) Integrate History of Science into Physics Courses	2
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
Turning the Plurality of Chemistry into a Resource for Learning: A Core Competency of Chemistry Teachers	2
Impact of GPT on the Academic Ecosystem	2
Historical Errors as Resources for Understanding Science	2
Trust in Science and Science Education — Part 1	2