The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of short science stories based
on the history of science for science teacher education. Such stories are implemented
to acquaint prospective and practicing science teachers in all educational
levels with a conceptualisation of the nature of science (NOS) drawing from recent
and contemporary developments in the philosophy of science (namely, the lines of
new experimentalism and semantic conception of scientific theories). Science stories
are here understood as narratives combining different ‘rationalities