Müzik Öğretmen Adaylarının Bilimin DoğasıHakkında Görüşleri

Views about knowing and learning science and the nature of science have been probed in the past by focusing on different groups and sub-groups of learners and citizens. Since science literacy is now being aimed for everyone in many international documents, we were interested in probing and cross comparing the views of prospective music teachers' views about science. For this purpose, in this descriptive study, we utilized the Nature of Scientific Knowledge Scale and administered this instrument to prospective music teachers. We also administered the instrument to graduate students enrolled in the music education program. It was found that music education graduate students scored higher. The music education undergraduates scored lower and the mean differences were statistically significant. This finding suggest that cross-disciplinary courses such as nature and history of science should be offered and can be useful for developing scientific literacy for music education majors.