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Student Decision-Making about a Globally Familiar Socioscientific Issue: The Value of Sharing and Comparing Views with International Counterparts
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Grace, Marcus; Lee, Yeung Chung; Asshoff, Roman; Wallin, Anita – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This paper focuses on the views of 16-17-year-old science students from England, Germany, Hong Kong and Sweden on whale hunting, and their perceptions of the views of their international counterparts. The students were all provided with the same decision-making task, discussed the issue in small groups and then presented their views on video,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Secondary School Science
Scientific and Technological Progress, Political Beliefs and Environmental Sustainability
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Makrakis, Vassilios – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
With the development of science and technology, a basically optimistic ideology of progress has emerged. This deterministic attitude has been challenged in recent decades as a result of harmful side-effects generated by the way technology and science have been approached and used. The study presented here is a part of a larger international and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Ideology, Political Attitudes
Interpretation in Sweden.
Hultman, Sven-G. – Heritage Communicator, 1987
Describes some of the interpretive developments underway in Sweden. Discusses some programs in both natural and cultural interpretation. Calls for increasing the purpose and content of heritage preservation and conservation to the general public. (TW)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Cultural Education, Ecology, Environmental Education