Overview
- Describes innovative to enhance teachers' capability on teaching socio-scientific issues and sustainability
- Explores innovative teaching approaches for promoting students’ citizenship and literacy
- Investigates factors affecting student engagement in understanding of socio-scientific issues and sustainability
Part of the book series: Learning Sciences for Higher Education (LSHE)
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Keywords
- Socioscientific Issue
- SSI Teaching
- Socio-Scientific Issues Assessment
- Socio-Scientific Issues Learning
- Socio-Scientific Issues Education
- Sustainability Teaching
- Sustainability Assessment
- Sustainability Learning
- Sustainability Education
- Teacher Education
- Citizenship and Education
- Futures Thinking
- Teacher Learning
- Student Learning in Science
Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Innovative Approaches to Teacher Professional Learning
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Innovative Approaches to Teaching
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Russell Tytler is Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair of Science Education at Deakin University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Monash University in 1995. He has researched and written extensively on student learning and the role of representation as a multimodal language for reasoning in science, on teacher learning, socio-scientific reasoning and interdisciplinarity, school–community partnerships, and STEM curriculum policy and practice. He is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has written a number of influential government reports, been active in curriculum development, has been Member of the Science Expert Group for PISA 2015 and 2024, and Member of the advisory group for the European PARRISE project focused on socio-scientific issues.
Peta White is Senior Lecturer of Science and Environmental Education, School of Education, Deakin University. Peta has worked in classrooms, as Curriculum Consultant and Manager, andas Teacher Educator in several jurisdictions across Canada and Australia. Peta gained her Ph.D. in Saskatchewan, Canada, where she focussed on learning to live sustainably which became a platform from which to educate future teachers. Peta’s current research interests follow three directions including science and biology education, sustainability, climate change, and environmental education, and collaborative/activist research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovative Approaches to Socioscientific Issues and Sustainability Education
Book Subtitle: Linking Research to Practice
Editors: Ying-Shao Hsu, Russell Tytler, Peta J. White
Series Title: Learning Sciences for Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1840-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1839-1Published: 02 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1842-1Published: 03 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1840-7Published: 01 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-7302
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7310
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 373
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental and Sustainability Education, Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education