Overview
- Advances understandings of how to promote scientific literacy
- Provides new insights for teaching science in the context of socio-scientific issues (SSI)
- Presents the field's most inclusive collection of classroom-based SSI research projects Presents a new empirically based framework for SSI based education Features leading authors from eight countries across four continents
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education (CTISE, volume 39)
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Keywords
- SSI
- SSI-based interventions
- classroom-based research
- learning science
- science classroom
- science education
- scientific argumentation
- scientific literacy
- socio-scientific issues
- socio-scientific problem
- socio-scientific reasoning
- teaching SSI
- teaching and learning
- teaching argumentation
- teaching science
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (20 chapters)
Reviews
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“Sadler’s volume is clearly primarily an ‘academic’ book: it is theoretical, and scholarly. … valuable to teachers who are interested in developing teaching approaches and material for teaching socio-scientific issues. … Researchers and graduate students will certainly find much of interest here … . The book certainly makes a substantial contribution in seeking to develop our understanding of the challenges and affordances of this focus of science teaching.” (Keith S. Taber, Teacher Development, February, 2014)
“The present book is a collection of chapters, written by different authors, coordinated by T.D. Sadler. … This book is a must for researchers in education who are interested in teaching SSIs, but it should also be read by those studying the teaching of stabilized knowledge in science. The issues raised are significantly rich. The form chosen is original and stimulating. I strongly recommend it.” (Laurence Simonneaux, Science & Education, May, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom
Book Subtitle: Teaching, Learning and Research
Editors: Troy D. Sadler
Series Title: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1159-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1158-7Published: 13 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3608-5Published: 15 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1159-4Published: 11 May 2011
Series ISSN: 1878-0482
Series E-ISSN: 1878-0784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 376
Topics: Science Education, Learning & Instruction, Curriculum Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education