The Sophisticated Inductive Approach and Science Education

Abstract:     
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: Analyzing 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.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 5

Keywords: Sophisticated approach, Induction, Elimination, Science education, Falsification

JEL Classification: Z00

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