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María del Mar López-Fernández; Francisco González-García; Antonio Joaqui´n Franco-Mariscal – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Socio-scientific issues demonstrate the relationship between science, technology, and society by considering currently unresolved questions. The problem of plastics and their pollution is just one example with important implications for the planet. The aim of this paper is to revisit socio-scientific issues and see them as a way of developing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Citizen Participation
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Cebrián-Robles, Daniel; España-Ramos, Enrique; Reis, Pedro – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Complexities of social problems in our globalised world pose new educational challenges, including how to empower citizens for active engagement with socioscientific issues. This study describes the analysis and discussion of an activist video as the first phase in an activist education programme. Participants were 104 preservice primary teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Science and Society, Social Problems
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Evagorou, Maria; Guven, Devrim; Mugaloglu, Ebru – Science Education International, 2014
The purpose of the paper is to present the framework and design of modules aiming to teach socio-scientific issues and the related pedagogy to pre-service teachers. Specifically, the work presented in this paper is part of the PreSEES project, a Comenius/LLP project with the main aim of engaging elementary and secondary pre-service teachers in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers