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ERIC Number: ED589098
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr-12
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-
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What Do Youth Know about Socioscientific Issues? Reflecting for Sociopolitical Actions
Zouda, Majd; Nishizawa, Tomo; Bencze, John Lawrence
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Washington, DC, Apr 8-12, 2016)
Science and technology are argued to have controversial consequences on individuals, societies and environments. Citizens' socio-political activism seems paramount to address these consequences. This paper reports on Venezuelan students' socio-political actions on socioscientific issues highly relevant to them. It particularly focuses on students' commitment to act and their types of actions in-relation to systematic reflection-in and on-actions (Schön, 1983). We argue that these practices have improved students' understanding of socioscientific issues and encouraged them to take strategic decisions regarding their actions: Two outcomes that seem to increase students' commitment to activism. We discuss their prioritized choices and the significance of our findings to activist science education.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 11
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Venezuela
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