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Morin, Olivier; Simonneaux, Laurence; Tytler, Russell – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Scientific expertise and outcomes often give rise to controversy. An educational response that equips students to take part in socioscientific discussions is the teaching of Socially Acute Questions (SAQs). Students engaging with SAQs need to engage with socio scientific reasoning, which involves reasoning with evidence from a variety of fields…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Accuracy, Social Influences, College Students
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Morin, Olivier; Simonneaux, Laurence; Simonneaux, Jean; Tytler, Russell – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Scientific expertise and outcomes often give rise to controversy. An educational response that equips students to take part in such discussions is the teaching of socially acute questions (SAQs). With SAQs, the understanding of uncertainty, risk and how knowledge is developed is central. This study explores the way in which students from different…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Thinking Skills, Science and Society, Environmental Education
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Morin, Olivier; Tytler, Russell; Barraza, Laura; Simonneaux, Laurence; Simonneaux, Jean – Teaching Science, 2013
In this article, we describe a project on reasoning about socio-scientific issues (SSIs), involving French and Australian pre-service science teachers engaged in on-line discussion and development of a wiki. In the research, we developed frameworks for looking at the quality of reasoning about "socially acute" sustainability questions.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Science Education