Pre-service chemistry teachers' beliefs about argumentation and argumentative practice

The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of pre-service chemistry teachers' beliefs about argumentation and argumentative practice in the context of school after they have participated in intentional argumentation training. A month after completing their training, the researchers conducted interviews with them and analyzed the responses using the content analysis method in which there are a de-contextualisation, re-contextualisation, categorization, and compilation of information. The results show that pre-service chemistry teachers´ beliefs about argumentative practice are in line with the literature of the area