Journal Article

A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education

Erduran, Sibel, Cheung, Kason Ka Ching

2023

Overview

The paper reports about the outcome of a systematic review of research on family resemblance approach (FRA) to nature of science in (NOS) science education. FRA is a relatively recent perspective on NOS being a system of cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional aspects of science. FRA thus consists of a set of categories such as aims and values, practices, knowledge and social organizations in relation to NOS. Since the introduction of the FRA, there has been increasing interest in investigations about how FRA can be of use in science education both empirically and practically. A journal content analysis was conducted in order to investigate which FRA categories are covered in journal articles and to identify the characteristics of the studies that have used FRA. These characteristics included the target level of education and focus on pre- or in-service teachers. Furthermore, epistemic network analysis of theoretical and empirical papers was conducted to determine the extent to which the studies incorporated various key themes about FRA, such as its transferability to other domains and differentiation of the social-institutional system categories. The findings illustrate an increasing number of empirical studies using FRA in recent years and broad coverage in science education. Although the social-institutional system categories included intraconnections, these were not as strong as those intraconnections among categories within the cognitive-epistemic system. Future research directions for the use of FRA in K-12 science education are discussed.

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Astronomy / Categories / Check Lists / College Science / College Students / Content analysis / Curricula / Education / Educational Facilities Improvement / Educational Practices / Educational Research / Educational Technology / Educational Trends / Empirical analysis / Epistemology / Evidence Based Practice / Family Characteristics / Financial systems / Games / History / Instructional Materials / Instructional Program Divisions / Interdisciplinary Approach / Knowledge management / Literature Reviews / Meta Analysis / Molecular Biology / Network Analysis / Periodicals / Philosophy of Science / Political power / Preservice Teachers / Researchers / Science and Society / Science Curriculum / Science Education / Science Instruction / Science Teachers / Scientific Principles / SI: Family Resemblance Approach / Social justice / Social Systems / Systematic review / Textbooks / Trends / University students