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Chang says he hopes that the murals will remind students of the importance of viewing science within the context of human values.
In recent years, a new kind of epistemology has emerged that sees no contradiction in viewing science both as a profoundly social activity and at the same time as rational.
For example, in one of the studies, Cavallo and McCall (2008) found that students who believed in the tentative NOS were more likely to believe evolutionary theory compared to those viewing science as fixed and authoritative.
Second, it shifted students from viewing science as a fixed, unchanging body of knowledge to appreciating the complexity of using this knowledge to make relevant and valid judgments about their environment, and this resonated with the nature of science learning as presented by Capps and Crawford (2013) earlier.
Key concepts of NOS include viewing science as more than just the oversimplified, stepwise scientific method presented in many textbooks; the role of the scientific community in the generation of scientific knowledge; the theory laden nature of observation and experimentation; and the fact that scientific theories are durable while science itself is a self-correcting process (Grinnell [2009]).
The brilliance comes from viewing science and research as an investment in the future, and has included support for agencies such as the NSF, NASA, the NIH, and the DOE, as well as the encouragement of public-private partnerships.
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