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Direct linkHoeg, Darren – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This commentary discusses SSIs in relation to environmental ethics. In their article, Augusto Macalalag Jr., Joseph Johnson and Michelle Lai note tensions between SSIs and environmental education and investigate educational experiences that address some of these tensions. The discourse associated with SSIs generally does not consider…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Natural Resources, Fuels, Conservation (Environment)
Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
This second part continues the search for ways of overcoming the three limitations of the current intellectual and professional division of labor and its knowledge infrastructure, which were shown to be at the root of the present economic, social and environmental crises. A complementary knowledge strategy is proposed to counterbalance the trade…
Descriptors: Industrialization, Technological Advancement, Social Sciences, Science and Society
Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
The role tradition played in preindustrial societies has been supplanted by the decisions of countless specialists organized by means of an intellectual and professional division of labor shaping a knowledge infrastructure that sustains these decisions. Three limitations of this knowledge system are discussed: (a) on the macrolevel, it imposes an…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Social Sciences, Science and Society, Decision Making
Download full textZoller, Uri; And Others – 1988
Based on the belief that students should have a better understanding of technology and science and their interaction with society, the course Science and Technology 11 (ST 11), was proposed in 1984 for students in grade 11 in British Columbia (Canada) who did not elect one of the existing science courses. In September 1986, this new STS course was…
Descriptors: Course Content, Decision Making, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationInternational Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century (UNESCO), Paris (France). – 1994
This session of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century was preceded by a 2-day working group on the processes of education. The Commission also held an afternoon of hearings that included an in-depth exchange between Canadian educational leaders and the Commission members on a wide range of topics that included…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Branch. – 1990
The Science 16 program provides for the development of essential concepts, skills, and attitudes in science that will enable students to function successfully in the home, classroom, workplace, and community. The program is activity-based, and provides opportunities for students to relate essential concepts, skills, and attitudes to their own…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Support Branch. – 1990
This monograph provides a comprehensive description of the science, technology, and society (STS) movement in science education. The STS approach strives to broaden the scope of science education by integrating into the science program accurate presentations of the nature of science, the nature of technology, and the interactions of science and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Branch. – 1990
The Science 16 program provides for the development of essential concepts, skills, and attitudes in science that will enable students to function successfully in the home, classroom, workplace, and community. The program is activity-based, and provides opportunities for students to relate essential concepts, skills, and attitudes to their own…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Aikenhead, Glen S. – 1988
This guide is written for Saskatchewan science teachers (particularly grades 7-12) who wish to know more about features of the proposed new science curricula for Saskatchewan. The purpose is to clarify the expanding repertoire of science teaching strategies which a teacher will develop as he or she implements one of the new science courses in…
Descriptors: Community Services, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Decision Making, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
