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Demiralp, Burcu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One of the challenges humans face is making collective decisions with regards to controversial issues related to science, namely socio-scientific issues (SSIs). Genetic modification, nuclear energy, experimental drugs, 5G technology are a few examples of SSIs. Some of the concerns posed by such issues are compromise to privacy and identity, threat…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Decision Making, News Reporting, Genetics
Marx, George, Ed. – 1989
The proceedings of the International Conference on Energy Alternatives and Risk Education contains papers which examine science teaching in relation to societal aspects of risk assessment. A challenge for the conference was to show how science education can help students learn the concepts of acceptable and unacceptable risks, leading to rational…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy