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Sergio Calavia; B. Bravo-Torija; B. Mazas – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This paper presents an analysis of the socio-scientific dimensions which 46 11th graders, enrolled in the subject scientific culture, consider to justify their COVID-19 vaccination decision and how they managed to combine and integrate these dimensions before and after working on a sequence of activities aimed at learning about argumentation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, High School Students
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García-Carmona, Antonio – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2021
The global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to a plethora of information published in the media. Conceived as a socioscientific issue of great relevance currently, this article highlight the educational potential of some media news about the pandemic to reflect and learn about the nature of science (NOS). To this end, a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science and Society, Critical Reading, Reflection
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Lo´pez-Ferna´ndez, Mari´a del Mar; Gonza´lez-Garci´a, Francisco; Franco-Mariscal, Antonio Joaqui´n – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The social dimension of chemistry is relevant and present in numerous socio-scientific issues, for example, the use of plastics. These issues can be covered at school by implementing strategies such as role-playing, which allow different perspectives to be understood, thereby helping to promote changes in attitude. This paper presents a…
Descriptors: Plastics, Chemistry, Educational Games, Role Playing