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Socioscientific Issues and COVID-19: Responding to Curriculum Reform through Action Research
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Fuchs, Travis T.; Jellema, Elysia – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
This collaborative action research project documents the exploration and student learning outcomes of COVID-19 socioscientific issue-based lessons. Analysis of student interviews, surveys, and work, combined with classroom observations, revealed that COVID-19 socioscientific issue-based lessons improved students' conceptual understanding of the…
Descriptors: Science and Society, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
Science Education: Opportunities for Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment and Social Justice through "Political Knowledge"
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Bellomo, Katherine – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Science, technology, society, and the environment (STSE) education is a part of the science curriculum in Ontario schools and also a theoretical positioning for a science teacher. This qualitative study uses individual interviews, group meetings, and action research to explore, how science teachers, develop and implement inclusive science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Social Justice, Technology Education, Science Curriculum
Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Teaching STSE-Based High School Physics: Implications for Post-Secondary Studies
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MacLeod, Katarin – European Journal of Physics Education, 2014
Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) education has received attention in educational research, policy, and science curricula development, yet less advancement has been made in moving theory into practice. There are many examples of STSE-based teaching in science at the elementary and secondary levels, yet little has focused…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, High Schools, Secondary School Science
Shifting Currents: Science Technology Society and Environment in Northern Ontario Schools
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Steele, Astrid – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2013
The focus is on the practices of secondary science teachers in rural, resource-extraction-based communities in the boreal region of northern Ontario, Canada. In 2008 the Ontario Ministry of Education mandated that science teaching and learning should bring to the forefront consideration of the impacts of science on society and environment, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Rural Areas
Promoting Issues-Based STSE Perspectives in Science Teacher Education: Problems of Identity and Ideology
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Pedretti, Erminia G.; Bencze, Larry; Hewitt, Jim; Romkey, Lisa; Jivraj, Ashifa – Science & Education, 2008
Although science, technology, society and environment (STSE) education has gained considerable force in the past few years, it has made fewer strides in practice. We suggest that "science" teacher identity plays a role in the adoption of STSE perspectives. Simply put, issues-based STSE education challenges traditional images of a science…
Descriptors: Ideology, Science Teachers, Foreign Countries, Science and Society
Risk: Why Don't They Listen to Us?
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Solomon, Joan – Studies in Science Education, 2003
Not being listened to, or having their advice mistrusted, is a daily problem for teachers and parents, as well as for doctors, scientists, technologists and other experts. It is also a serious dilemma in applied social psychology (Eiser, 1986) as well as in education where educators talk persuasively with strong evidence about not taking drugs,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Citizenship, Science and Society