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Kapon, Shulamit; Laherto, Antti; Levrini, Olivia – Science Education, 2018
Pursuing both disciplinary authenticity and personal relevance in the teaching and learning of science in school generates tensions that should be acknowledged and resolved. This paper problematizes and explores the conceptualizations of these tensions by considering personal relevance, disciplinary authenticity, and common school science as three…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Educational Objectives, Course Content, Epistemology
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Calado, Florbela M.; Scharfenberg, Franz-Josef; Bogner, Franz X. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2018
Our paper analyses the genetics and gene technology contents of German (Bavarian) and Portuguese biology textbooks, as fields common in science-technology-society-environment (STSE) issues. Our aim was to determine the extent to which textbooks from both countries contribute to students' understanding of the STSE issues and therefore to students'…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries