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This article's primary purpose is to examine the aesthetic aspects of natural sciences to gain an aesthetic understanding of the nature of science and its consequences for science education. For this purpose, using the method of analysis and deduction, after examining the conventional components of the nature of science based on Lederman et al. (2002), the aesthetic aspects of the conventional components of the nature of science were discussed. The study showed that science and scientific activities have essential commonalities with artistic and aesthetic activity. The importance of imagination and creativity, emotions, intuition, and attention to criteria such as beauty, elegance, simplicity, symmetry and harmony of theories by scientists, and metaphors and allegories, are the aesthetic and artistic aspects of the nature of science. This study showed that: (1) the importance of aesthetic nurturing in science education; and (2) the necessity of adopting a holistic approach to science education; are two fundamental theoretical implications that result from an aesthetic understanding of the nature of science.

The main purpose of this research is to expand the interests of science and to study its implications for science education. To this end, Habermas' science interests are first addressed in three ways: technical, practical and emancipatory. Then Mary Hesse's approach to the interpretative and hermeneutical aspects of the natural sciences is examined. After that, Martin Eger's views on the cosmological interest and its suppression in education are discussed. In the next section, while proposing the field of "science studies" as "transcendental interests of science", we will expand the interests of science. Then, the implications of the four subfields of the history of science, the philosophy of science, the sociology of science and psychology of science are discussed. Finally, based on the findings of the study, a new approach and method were proposed, "interest-based science education". The results of this study suggest that in terms of transcendental interests in addition to technical and cosmological interests in natural science education, and the use of interest-based science education, a more comprehensive and extensive picture of science has been provided, while facilitating and deepening the teaching-learning process of science, making this process more attractive and enjoyable.

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the epistemological problems of learning the concepts of empirical sciences by students. For this purpose, the notion of epistemological obstacles and the psychoanalysis of objective knowledge method presented by Gaston Bachelor, was used. The psychoanalysis of objective knowledge method has three main aspects of psychoanalytic, epistemological, and historical. The psychoanalysis of objective knowledge, with regards to these aspects, addresses the factors and obstacles that have hampered the development and advancement of science. In addition to the determinative role played in scientific researches, epistemological obstacles also have important educational implications in the field of empirical science education. In this article, we will focus on the major educational implications of epistemological obstacles in the teaching of empirical sciences, and we propose a new approach to science education. The proposed approach emphasizes the use of epistemological errors in students to identify and eliminate learning obstacles. The results of the research indicate that application of the consequences of epistemological obstacles to science education can help to improve the quality of teaching science by identifying and eliminating learning obstacles from different aspects.