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Direct linkClare Wilkinson; Amanda D. Webber – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
'Threshold concepts' have recently been identified as a key component for higher or university level teaching in science communication, concepts which can offer a 'transformative' experience amongst students, whilst also creating a sense of discomfort. In this research article, we examine data gathered via two qualitative focus groups and a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
Allgaier, Joachim – Science & Education, 2010
The issue whether creationist accounts of the origins of life should be taught in science education alongside or even instead Darwin's theory of evolution is controversial in many countries. In 2002 there was a controversy around teaching creationism in science classes at a secondary school in England. The research presented in this paper uses…
Descriptors: Creationism, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Expertise
Iredale, Mathew – London Review of Education, 2007
In the final paragraph of his 1984 book "From knowledge to wisdom, a revolution in the aims and methods of science," the philosopher Nicholas Maxwell boldly declared that an intellectual revolution was underway in the aims and methods of science, and academic inquiry in general, from what he termed knowledge-inquiry to wisdom-inquiry.…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Inquiry, Intellectual History, Scientific Concepts
