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Direct linkKenneth J. Saltman – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
From climate disaster to the specter of nuclear annihilation to the rise of fascism and destruction of democracy to the advent of AI and other potentially destructive technologies, a number of material threats are matched by symbolic threats that undermine the capacities of people to respond. The war on public and critical education and the public…
Descriptors: Ecology, Privatization, Environmental Education, Climate
Vardanian, Maryna – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
The numerous ecological catastrophes of the twentieth century caused by humans have found their way into mass culture. Among them is the Chornobyl nuclear accident that took place in Ukraine in 1986. This disaster became a subject of reflection not only in Ukrainian literature but also in world films and computer games. Along with other works on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nuclear Energy, Facilities, Fiction
Download full textJenne Schmidt – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
This project uses critical place inquiry (Tuck & McKenzie, 2015) to examine the Hanford Site to demonstrate the potential in wild pedagogies to engage not just immaculate and inspiring wildness places but also sites of ruin. Attending to places of ruin can illuminate the ways that the social, historical, and political are intimately…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Ideology
Borgerding, Lisa A.; Dagistan, Murat – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2018
The teaching of socioscientific issues (SSI) holds promise for advancing functional scientific literacy, promoting critical thinking, and providing an interesting context for learning required science content, but few teachers actually employ this teaching method in K-12 classrooms. One common reason cited by teachers is their concern about the…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Yapicioglu, Aysegül Evren; Aycan, Sule – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2018
The establishment and use of nuclear power plants to meet the energy need is a controversial socioscientific issue in all the countries of the world; as in Turkey. In this regard, the current study intended to investigate the effect of the socioscientific issue-based instructional activities related to the Nuclear Energy Plants (NEP) that have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Decision Making, Abstract Reasoning
Gunel, Elvan, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018
"Controversial Issues in Social Studies Education in Turkey: The Contemporary Debates" consists of different research. Each chapter analyzes a controversial topic that is significant to understand the social and political dynamics of Turkish society and culture. One of the purposes of this volume is to analyze and discuss how various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies, Gender Issues
Jumazhanova, Gulzhanar; Tursungozhinova, Gulnar; Belenko, Oxana; Iskakova, Marzhan; Amanova, Aray – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article covers on the matters which allow stating that people living in the areas with unfavorable ecological conditions experience long-term psycho-traumatic psychological stress caused by exaggeration of irradiation danger and its aftereffects for health. The reasons for long-term psychological stress as per the results of questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Mental Health, Stress Variables, Questionnaires
Curley, Martin G.; Formica, Piero; Nicolo, Vincenzo – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
Incubators are embedded in the culture of the economics of (value-added) services. To date, at least in Europe, they have operated in a manner analogous to the generation of nuclear power; that is, attempting to produce "entrepreneurial energy" through a process of fission that creates a division between the aspiring entrepreneurs'…
Descriptors: Creativity, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy, Ecology
Byrne, John; Martinez, Cecilia; Ruggero, Colin – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
Climate change, rising energy costs, and other dilemmas raise the prospect for major change in energy-ecology-society relations. Two prominent proposals for change include: a nuclear power renaissance; and mega-scale renewable energy development. Both suggest that modern society will receive a rising stream of less CO2-rich kilowatt-hours, so that…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Energy Management, Nuclear Energy, Energy
