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Overview

Mansoor Niaz is affiliated with Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on the intersection of history, philosophy, and science.

The main fields of study represented in their work include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Niaz's subfields of research are more specific and include:

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

The core topics of their research cover interdisciplinary subjects such as:

  • Philosophy, Science, and History
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Anarchism and Radical Politics
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Science and Climate Studies
  • History of Science and Natural History
  • Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel

Mansoor Niaz has contributed to various peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers such as:

  • "Toward Understanding the Structure of the Historical Controversy: Atomic Models as an Exemplar," 2020, published in Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education
  • "Comparative Analysis among Skilled and Novice Female Table Tennis Players in the Components of Physical Fitness and Kinematics of Forehand Drive," 2024, published in Global Physical Education & Sports Sciences Review

Their work has appeared in notable venues including:

  • Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education
  • Global Physical Education & Sports Sciences Review

Niaz has also published books, with at least one title released through Springer Nature (Netherlands):

  • "Feyerabend's Epistemological Anarchism," 2020

Collaboration is an important aspect of Niaz's research activities, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Gyoung-Ho Lee
  • Sangwoon Kwon
  • Sadia Majeed
  • Aqsa Majeed

Best Publications

  • Inquiry in science education: International perspectives

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Saouma Boujaoude;Richard Duschl;Norman G. Lederman

  • Arguments, contradictions, resistances, and conceptual change in students' understanding of atomic structure

    Mansoor Niaz;Damarys Aguilera;Arelys Maza;Gustavo Liendo

  • Cognitive conflict as a teaching strategy in solving chemistry problems: A dialectic–constructivist perspective

    Mansoor Niaz

  • From cathode rays to alpha particles to quantum of action: A rational reconstruction of structure of the atom and its implications for chemistry textbooks

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Investigating the effectiveness of a POE-based teaching activity on students' understanding of condensation

    Bayram Coştu;Alipaşa Ayas;Mansoor Niaz

  • Balancing chemical equations: The role of developmental level and mental capacity

    Mansoor Niaz;Anton E. Lawson

  • Promoting conceptual change in first year students’ understanding of evaporation

    Bayram Coştu;Alipaşa Ayas;Mansoor Niaz

  • Progressive Transitions from Algorithmic to Conceptual Understanding in Student Ability To Solve Chemistry Problems: A Lakatosian Interpretation.

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Relationship between student performance on conceptual and computational problems of chemical equilibrium

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Progressive transitions in chemistry teachers’ understanding of nature of science based on historical controversies

    Mansoor Niaz

  • The Oil Drop Experiment: A Rational Reconstruction of the Millikan-Ehrenhaft Controversy and Its Implications for Chemistry Textbooks

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Working Memory, Mental Capacity and Science Education: towards an understanding of the ‘working memory overload hypothesis’

    Mansoor Niaz;Robert H. Logie

  • Nature of Science in General Chemistry Textbooks

    Mansoor Niaz;Arelys Maza

  • Relation between M space of students and M demand of different items of general chemistry and its interpretation based upon the neo-Piagetian theory of Pascual Leone

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Facilitating Conceptual Change in Students’ Understanding of Boiling Concept

    Bayram Coştu;Alipaşa Ayas;Mansoor Niaz;Suat Ünal

  • Manipulation of logical structure of chemistry problems and its effect on student performance

    Mansoor Niaz;William R. Robinson

  • A Lakatosian Conceptual Change Teaching Strategy Based on Student Ability To Build Models with Varying Degrees of Conceptual Understanding of Chemical Equilibrium.

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise: Dynamics of Scientific Progress

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Epistemological beliefs of students and teachers about the nature of science: from ‘baconian inductive ascent’ to the ‘irrelevance’ of scientific laws

    Rafael Blanco;Mansoor Niaz

  • Science Teaching: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science

    Mansoor Niaz

  • Manipulation of M Demand of Chemistry Problems and its Effect on Student Performance: A Neo-Piagetian Study.

    Mansoor Niaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anton E. Lawson
Anton E. Lawson Arizona State University
Richard A. Duschl
Richard A. Duschl Pennsylvania State University
Norman G. Lederman
Norman G. Lederman Illinois Institute of Technology
David F. Treagust
David F. Treagust Curtin University
Avi Hofstein
Avi Hofstein Weizmann Institute of Science
Chin Chung Tsai
Chin Chung Tsai National Taiwan Normal University

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