Actitudes de estudiantes y profesorado sobre las características de los científicos

Abstract

This study assesses some students’ and teachers’ views toward scientists’ values about the scientists’ motivation to investigate, impartiality and objectivity, honesty, social activities and relationships, and patience and self-determina­tion abilities. On the whole, teachers’ and students’ attitudes are too similar, except in the case of scientists’ impartiality and objectivity and sometimes ambivalence. Claims to explicitly include the history, epistemology and sociology of science in school curriculum and teachers’ training are suggested, as a means to improve the teaching and learning of science.