Content Analysis of Middle School Physics Teacher's Guide Based on the Approach to the Nature of Science - Qualitative Research

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the content of the manuals of the Middle School Physics Teacher Guide in Iran toward the dimensions of the nature of science. The data collection method was the latest mapping of the physics teacher's guide books, so the Physics Manual 2 (in 89) and physics 3 (in 89) and physics 4 (in year 94), which the Ministry of Education Based on the approved goals, it was selected. The research was qualitative and its method was content analysis was conducted using content oriented analysis. The paragraph was considered as analysis unit and analyzed in terms of categorization method in relation to the three general aspects of the nature of science including tentative, creative, and theory and law. The data was validated by the matching method. The results showed that in the textbooks of the teacher of high school physics, the aspects of the nature of science have been discussed, which is mainly the process of the implication, and the most emphasis on the tentative aspects of science, but the aspect of law and theory is not well introduced and explained.