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Marks, Ralf; Stuckey, Marc; Belova, Nadja; Eilks, Ingo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
This paper reflects the theory and practice of societal-oriented science education in the past and present of German science teaching. Starting from a quite unique German justification for more thorough societal-oriented science education and some historical reflections a model for socio-scientific issues-based science teaching will be presented.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational History, Science History
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Burmeister, Mareike; Eilks, Ingo – School Science Review, 2014
People use many different products made from plastics every day. But conventional plastics such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) do not always have a good reputation in society at large. Bioplastics such as thermoplastic starch (TPS) promise to be better alternatives but are they really better than conventional plastics? This article presents a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science