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Özbugutu, Emrah – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2022
This study was carried out in order to determine what postgraduate science teachers perceive when socio scientific issues are mentioned, how they teach these subjects, what difficulties they encounter during teaching the subjects and what they need during the teaching of socio scientific issues. For this purpose, three groups of interviews were…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Graduate Students, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Uçak, Esra; Saka, Ceren – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of using Web 2.0 tools in the teaching of socioscientific issues on pre-service science teachers. A total of 24 senior pre-service science teachers attending a state university in the spring term of the 2021-2022 academic year participated in the study. The study was conducted with the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Science and Society
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Karakas, Hamdi; Eyceyurt Turk, Gülseda – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
The science curriculum in the Turkish education system includes socioscientific issues (SSI) as a context for developing students' reasoning skills, scientific thinking habits, and decision-making skills from an early age. Conducting activities on real problems with teachers and pre-service teachers based on SSI and making decisions considering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Thinking Skills
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Lee, Hyunju; Witz, Klaus G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The need for the inclusion of socio-scientific issues (SSI) into science curricula has been generally accepted, but relatively few science teachers have incorporated SSI into their courses. Most science teachers feel that their most important task by far is to teach the principles of science, and any substantive pedagogical changes represent a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Educational Change, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
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Hepburn, Gary; Gaskell, P. James – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Inquires into the influence of subject communities on the practice of secondary school teachers as they teach a new science and technology course that crosses traditional subject and department boundaries. Contains 20 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Career Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Dineley, D. L. – Journal of Geological Education, 1990
Changes in the national secondary science curriculum in England and Wales are discussed. The new syllabus is described and the problems for science teaching created by this new curriculum are highlighted. (CW)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Earth Science, Foreign Countries
Dass, Pradeep M. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2005
Reformed preparation of science teachers is indeed vital for the vision of science teaching reform to be accomplished. Typically, a critical component of a preservice science teacher preparation program is the science teaching methods course. The usual intent of this course is to help preservice science students develop an understanding of various…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Methods Courses, Science and Society, Educational Change