Science, technology, society and environment education
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Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media Open
Individuals are increasingly relying on social media as their primary source of scientific information. Science education needs to adapt. Nature of science (NOS) education is already widely accepted as essential to scientific literacy and …
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Use of the concept of<i>Bildung</i>in the international science education literature, its potential, and implications for teaching and learning Open
Bildung is a complex educational concept that emerged in Germany in the mid eighteenth century. Especially in Germany and Scandinavia conceptions of Bildung became the general philosophical framework to guide both formal and informal educa…
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(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world Open
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet examined whether science literacy actually enables this…
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Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances Open
Citizen science is growing as a field of research with contributions from diverse disciplines, promoting innovation in science, society, and policy. Inter- and transdisciplinary discussions and critical analyses are needed to use the curre…
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Bridging science education and science communication research Open
In some senses, both science education and science communication share common goals. Both seek to educate, entertain and engage the public with and about science. Somewhat surprisingly, given their common goals, they have evolved as dispar…
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Science Education and Education for Sustainable Development – Justifications, Models, Practices and Perspectives Open
The year 2014 marks the end of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). All educational domains and levels, including primary and secondary science education, have been working to contribute to education en…
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Citizen Science for Scientific Literacy and the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Formal Education Open
Curricular integration in formal teaching of citizen science can bring to the classroom aspects of scientific literacy that encourage the involvement of citizens. In particular, these include non-epistemic aspects related to the sociology …
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Teaching and Learning Science in the 21st Century: Challenging Critical Assumptions in Post-Secondary Science Open
It is widely agreed upon that the goal of science education is building a scientifically literate society. Although there are a range of definitions for science literacy, most involve an ability to problem solve, make evidence-based decisi…
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Citizen Science and the Neoliberal Transformation of Science – an Ambivalent Relationship Open
The neoliberal turn in science has led to the economisation of knowledge, economic criteria for evaluating research, and a retreat of the state from governance of the scientific system. These steps have important ramifications for citizen …
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The contrasting roles of science and technology in environmental challenges Open
Sustainable development is widely recognised as an existential challenge. To address it, humanity needs to change its ways. However, people seem slow to act, not always understanding and often denying environmental imperatives, creating su…
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Disentangling the Meaning of STEM: Implications for Science Education and Science Teacher Education Open
We have a wide variety of teaching experiences, from formal settings in elementary school, high school, higher education, and teacher education to international settings and also to informal settings. Despite our multiple teaching settings…
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The ‘Great Divide’: How the Arts Contribute to Science and Science Education Open
In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in interest about the relationship between the arts and the sciences. This article explores this developing relationship and the suggestion that science and science learning are not complete w…
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The Role of Critical Thinking in Science Education Open
This review aims to respond various questions regarding the role of Critical Thinking in Science Education from aspects concerning the importance or relevance of critical thinking in science education, the situation in the classroom and cu…
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Conceptual framework of STEM based on Japanese subject principles Open
Background School education should improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ability not only in science and mathematics but also in technology and engineering. However, practice and research are being conducted with…
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Towards a Viable Response to COVID-19 from the Science Education Community Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched almost every corner of the planet and continues to impact on lives, livelihoods, economies and cultures. It is both a human and a global phenomenon. Making sense of what is happening requires an understand…
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Thinking Inclusive Science Education from two Perspectives: Inclusive Pedagogy and Science Education Open
In the last decades, subject-matter education (Fachdidaktik) has been addressing the idea of inclusion rathe incidentally. Although inclusive teaching and learning became more and more prominent in research and practice, a theoretical sche…
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Science teacher education in Malaysia: challenges and way forward Open
This concept paper discussed the development of science teacher education programs in Malaysia. The discussion encompassed the existing policies, practices and issues, arising from the science teacher education. This paper also reviewed so…
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The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators Open
Contemporary science is a field that is becoming increasingly computational. Today’s scientists not only leverage computational tools to conduct their investigations, they often must contribute to the design of the computational tools for …
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Authentic STEM research, practices of science, and interest development in an informal science education program Open
Background Two critical challenges in science education are how to engage students in the practices of science and how to develop and sustain interest. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which high school youth, the majori…
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Scientific Performance and Mapping of the Term STEM in Education on the Web of Science Open
Technological progress is causing terms such as “STEM”, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, to burst into the educational arena, marking a new era in the application of innovative and motivating teaching and le…
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Identifying Relevant Anti-Science Perceptions to Improve Science-Based Communication: The Negative Perceptions of Science Scale Open
Science communicators and scholars have struggled to understand what appears to be increasingly frequent endorsement of a wide range of anti-science beliefs and a corresponding reduction of trust in science. A common explanation for this i…
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Science career aspiration and science capital in China and UK: a comparative study using PISA data Open
The concept of science capital has a growing influence in science education research for understanding young people’s science trajectories. Popularised in the UK, this paper aims to extend and evaluate the applicability of science capital …
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Young people’s technological images of the future: implications for science and technology education Open
Modern technology has had and continues to have various impacts on societies and human life in general. While technology in some ways defines the ‘digital age’ of today, discourses of ‘technological progress’ may dominate discussions of to…
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A question of dialogue? Reflections on how citizen science can enhance communication between science and society Open
Citizen science is a transdisciplinary approach that responds to the current science policy agenda: in terms of supporting open science, and by using a range of science communication instruments. In particular, it opens up scientific resea…
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Who aspires to be a scientist/who is allowed in science? Science identity as a lens to exploring the political dimension of the nature of science Open
Our purpose in this paper is to put forward an argument about both the need and the value for understanding how the constructs of science identity and the nature of science (NOS) might intersect and intertwine and offer useful insights abo…
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Vision III of scientific literacy and science education: an alternative vision for science education emphasising the ethico-socio-political and relational-existential Open
Publications with Vision III-ideas of scientific literacy and science education are reviewed. Since its inception in 2007, the same yearas Vision I and II were first formulated by Roberts, there have been at least eight mainly independent …
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Open Science and Radical Solutions for Diversity, Equity and Quality in Research: A Literature Review of Different Research Schools, Philosophies and Frameworks and Their Potential Impact on Science and Education Open
Open Science is a phenomenon that can be traced back to the Middle Ages. In the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, Open Science is strongly growing due to the worldwide internet and related new tech…
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Exploring Indigenous Science to Identify Contents and Contexts for Science Learning in Order to Promote Education for Sustainable Development Open
Indigenous science is comprised of the science-related knowledge and associated practices of indigenous cultures. Indigenous science provides rich contexts that can contribute to understanding the relationship of sociocultural life and env…
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Leveraging Communities of Practice as Professional Learning Communities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education Open
In the modern educational era, there is an increasing focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Innovation and workforce preparation play a large role in the push to increase scientific literacy, thinking skills …
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The urgency of religious and cultural science in STEM education: A meta data analysis Open
The 21st century education engages students to have higher order thinking and scientific literacy skills. However, these abilities in Indonsia are still relatively low, especially student’s scientific literacy skills. One solution to the p…