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There is no debate regarding the importance of including NOS in the science curriculum, but some suggest that it would be best to call this domain Nature of Science Studies, History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), Ideas-about-Science, Nature of Sciences, Nature of Scientific Knowledge, or Views on the Nature of Science.
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McComas, W.F. (2014). Nature of Science. In: McComas, W.F. (eds) The Language of Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-497-0_59
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