In recent years, treatment of NOS in some places has yielded to more
particular discussion of ‘science as a way of knowing’ (or ‘how scientific
knowledge is constructed,’ ‘scientific inquiry,’ or ‘the scientific worldview’),
‘scientific practices’ or the ‘scientific enterprise,’ and ‘how science works’
[…]. For teachers and curriculum designers, any articulation of the vague and
general phrase ‘nature of science’ is surely welcome. The notion of Whole
Science echoes and extends efforts to characterize NOS inclusively. (Allchin
2011, p. 526, emphasis added)