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Lida T. Klaver; Laurence J. F. Guérin; Patrick H. M. Sins; Juliette H. Walma van der Molen – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI) is seen as an important citizenship goal of SSI-based science education. In this experimental study, Dutch students (age 8 to 13) participated in lesson series in which they learned about and discussed SSI, such as issues related to the textile industry and wastewater. Attitudes toward SSI indicating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Roberts, Lissa L. – Science & Education, 2012
One of the two most extensive instrument collections in the Netherlands during the second half of the eighteenth century--rivaling the much better known collection at the University of Leiden--belonged to an orphanage in The Hague that was specially established to mold hand-picked orphans into productive citizens. (The other was housed at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Citizenship, Educational Philosophy