Socio-Scientific Issues in the Classroom
by Sadler, Troy D.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-05-19
Publisher(s): Springer Verlag
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Summary
Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended, multifaceted social issues with conceptual links to science. They are challenging to negotiate and resolve, and they create ideal contexts for bridging school science and the lived experience of students. This book presents the latest findings from the innovative practice and systematic investigation of science education in the context of socio-scientific issues. Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom: Teaching, Learning and Research focuses on how SSI can be productively incorporated into science classrooms and what SSI-based education can accomplish regarding student learning, practices and interest. It covers numerous topics that address key themes for contemporary science education including scientific literacy, goals for science teaching and learning, situated learning as a theoretical perspective for science education, and science for citizenship. It presents a wide range of classroom-based research projects that offer new insights for SSI-based education. Authored by leading researchers from eight countries across four continents, this book is an important compendium of syntheses and insights for veteran researchers, teachers and curriculum designers eager to advance the SSI agenda.
Table of Contents
| Situating Socio-scientific Issues in Classrooms as a Means of Achieving Goals of Science Education | p. 1 |
| Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance | p. 11 |
| Metalogue: Using Issues and Participatory Experiences to Enhance Student Learning and Interest | p. 39 |
| Learning Science Content and Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Classroom Explorations of Global Climate Change | p. 45 |
| Metalogue: Issues in the Conceptualization of Research Constructs and Design for SSI Related Work | p. 79 |
| Effects of an Interdisciplinary Program on Students' Reasoning with Socioscientific Issues and Perceptions of Their Learning Experiences | p. 89 |
| Metalogue: SSI in Undergraduate Science Education | p. 127 |
| Discussing a Socioscientific Issue in a Primary School Classroom: The Case of Using a Technology-Supported Environment in Formal and Nonformal Settings | p. 133 |
| Metalogue: Assessment, Audience, and Authenticity for Teaching SSI and Argumentation | p. 161 |
| Decision Making and Use of Evidence in a Socio-scientific Problem on Air Quality | p. 167 |
| Metalogue: Engaging Students in Scientific and Socio-scientific Argumentation | p. 193 |
| Different Music to the Same Score: Teaching About Genes, Environment, and Human Performances | p. 201 |
| Metalogue: Design and Enactment of SSI Curriculum: Critical Theory, Difficult Content, and Didactic Transposition | p. 239 |
| Learning Nature of Science Through Socioscientific Issues | p. 245 |
| Metalogue: Preconditions and Resources for Productive Socio-scientific Issues Teaching and Learning | p. 271 |
| Enacting a Socioscientific Issues Classroom: Transformative Transformations | p. 277 |
| Metalogue: Balancing Tensions Associated with Extensive Enactment of SSI-Based Teaching | p. 307 |
| A Case Study of the Impact of Introducing Socio-scientific Issues into a Reproduction Unit in a Catholic Girls' School | p. 313 |
| Metalogue: Critical Issues in Teaching Socio-scientific Issues | p. 347 |
| Socio-scientific Issues-Based Education: What We Know About Science Education in the Context of SSI | p. 355 |
| Index | p. 371 |
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