Abstract There are some crucial critiques on scientific inquiry and “the” Scientific Method in current science education. Recent research literature is replete with arguments against inquiry’s legitimacy to be included classes, it has even been abandoned from the Next Generation Science Standards . Critics of schools blame a caricature authentic suffering five shortcomings: (1) knowledge become...

integration remains difficult. In contrast, we interpret the dramatic increases in the more simplifying, self-protective style of elders as a movement that is initiated with increasing vulnerability in regulating homeostatic processes, including emotions. Indeed, our research and that of others (see Labouvie-Vief, Grühn, & Mouras, in press; Labouvie-Vief & Marquez, 2004) suggests that high comp...

I. A. Kieseppä’s criticism of the methodological use of the theory of verisimilitude, and D. B. Resnik’s arguments against the explanation of scientific method by appeal to scientific aims are critically considered. Since the notion of verisimilitude was introduced as an attempt to show that science can be seen as a rational enterprise in the pursuit of truth, defenders of the verisimilitude pr...