Avoidance of Logical Fallacies: a neglected aspect of science‐education and science‐teacher education

Modern curricula in the natural sciences stress the importance of the development of intellectual skills in the domain of critical thinking. Since such curricula are laboratory/enquiry orientated, the development of certain thought‐habits should be seen both as a prerequisite and as an outcome of science‐teaching. Teachers’ skills in this respect are usually taken for granted. Recent studies throw some doubts on such assumptions. In the study...