García-Carmona Antonio
Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, C/ Pirotecnia S/N, Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain.
Cult Stud Sci Educ. 2021;16(4):1015-1028. doi: 10.1007/s11422-021-10092-2. Epub 2021 Dec 1.
The global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to a plethora of information published in the media. Conceived as a socioscientific issue of great relevance currently, this article highlight the educational potential of some media news about the pandemic to reflect and learn about the nature of science (NOS). To this end, a theoretical foundation is first presented regarding the reading of science news published in the media as an educational resource to learn about NOS. Secondly, a proposal is presented on how this might be addressed in the science classroom. The proposal is illustrated by four news items, intentionally selected as examples, which have been published in the Spanish digital press. The aspects of NOS that are discussed in the context of the news items selected are: tentativeness of scientific knowledge, role of error in scientific research, role of debate in the development of science, importance of models and modelling in scientific research, and ethics in science.
由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）引起的全球新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）大流行导致媒体上发表了大量信息。本文将这一问题视为当前极具相关性的社会科学问题，强调了一些关于该大流行的媒体新闻在反映和了解科学本质（NOS）方面的教育潜力。为此，首先提出了一个理论基础，即将媒体上发表的科学新闻作为学习NOS的教育资源进行解读。其次，提出了一个关于如何在科学课堂中解决这一问题的建议。该建议通过四个故意选作例子的新闻报道进行说明，这些报道发表在西班牙数字媒体上。在所选新闻报道的背景下讨论的NOS方面包括：科学知识的试探性、科学研究中错误的作用、辩论在科学发展中的作用、模型和建模在科学研究中的重要性以及科学中的伦理。
