A VIEW ON “ESERA 2009” SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCHES CONFERANCE AND ITS CONTENTSTUDIES ABOUT NATURE OF SCIENCE, ARGUMENTATION, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE

The European Science Education Research Association does organize conferences in order to collect researches about science education in the recent years. “ESERA-2009 Conference”, as being one of those, worldwide science education researches are presented. In this important conference, science education is discussed in different perspectives such as; teaching, preservice and in-service teacher education, international perspectives, learning and assessment, scientific literacy and social aspects of science. In this paper, the national and international current researches on nature of scientific content, argumentation, history, philosophy and sociology of science are focused. Document analysis has been done and descriptive method is used. It will be an important guide to educators and researchers as a means of knowledge about recent studies. Content of studies, the distribution according to countries, the structure and distribution of research groups, preferred statistical methods and the results of the researches about nature of science, argumentation, history, philosophy and sociology of science are mentioned.