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Science and Technology Education in the STES Context in Primary Schools: What Should It Take?
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Zoller, Uri – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
Striving for sustainability requires a paradigm shift in conceptualization, thinking, research and education, particularly concerning the science-technology-environment-society (STES) interfaces. Consequently, "STES literacy" requires the development of students' question asking, critical, evaluative system thinking, decision making and problem…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Decision Making, Creative Thinking, Social Influences
From Teaching-to-Know-to-Learning-to-Think for Sustainability: What Should it Take? And How to Do it?
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Zoller, Uri – Online Submission, 2011
Given the current striving for "sustainability" and the corresponding paradigms shift in science, technology, R&D, environment perception, economy and politics; e.g., from unlimited growth-to-sustainable development, correction-to-prevention and passive consumption of "goods", culture and education--to active participation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Sustainable Development, Science Education
Does STES-Oriented Science Education Promote 10th-Grade Students' Decision-Making Capability?
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Levy Nahum, Tami; Ben-Chaim, David; Azaiza, Ibtesam; Herskovitz, Orit; Zoller, Uri – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
Today's society is continuously coping with sustainability-related complex issues in the Science-Technology-Environment-Society (STES) interfaces. In those contexts, the need and relevance of the development of students' higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) such as question-asking, critical-thinking, problem-solving and decision-making…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries