Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of science teachers' understanding of the dimensions of scientific culture and their practice in light of some variables in the Ajloun Education Directorate. The study sample, it reached (200) male and female teachers, chosen by the stratified random method, and the study used the survey descriptive method, where the researcher used tools to collect Albia Nate through (a test of science teachers' understanding of the dimensions of scientific culture, and their practice of identifying them), and the results showed that the relative importance ranged between (75% -51%), where science came first in the way of thinking with the highest relative importance (75%) While the interaction of science, technology and society came in the last rank with relative importance amounted to (51%), and the relative importance of the test of scientific culture as a whole (60%), as it showed a high degree of the dimensions of scientific culture, also showed a positive relationship statistically between the understanding of science teachers of the dimensions Scientific culture and their practice there, and showed no differences in the level of teacher understanding Science for the dimensions of scientific culture according to specialization, years of experience, degree, lack of differences in their practice of dimensions of scientific culture according to specialization, years of service, and the presence of differences according to the variable scientific degree in favor of the degree Bachelor's Diploma. The study recommended training science teachers during their service and increasing interest in topics that develop the understanding of science such as the philosophy of science.