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Pimvichai, Jirutthitikan; Buaraphan, Khajornsak – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
This study aims to develop a training workshop to promote the in-service science teachers' ability to teach the topic of Force and Motion to grade 10 students by using the Science-Technology-Society (STS) approach and explore its impacts on students' scientific argumentation patterns. The research methodology was a case study with one…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science and Society, Scientific Literacy, Persuasive Discourse
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Ladachart, Luecha; Ladachart, Ladapa – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The current study aims to explore how Thai preservice biology teachers make decisions upon and informally reason about two culture-based socioscientific issues, which are different yet contextually related. Participants included 46 fourth-year preservice biology teachers (12 males and 34 females) who completed a written questionnaire asking about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Late Adolescents, Student Characteristics
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Pimvichai, Jirutthitikan; Buaraphan, Khajornsak; Yuenyong, Chokchai; Ruangsuwan, Chaiyapong – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2019
This case study aimed to enhance students' scientific argumentation through the Science-Technology-Society (STS) approach. There were two phases in this study: (a) Exploring the current situation of grade 10 students' scientific argumentation in real classrooms, and (b) Developing and implementing the STS learning unit to enhance students'…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
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Chanapimuk, Kultida; Sawangmek, Sureeporn; Nangngam, Pranee – Journal of Science Learning, 2018
The environmental issues surrounding agrochemical products facing people today include serious health and ecological problems. Scientific literacy is necessary for students to understand scientific knowledge and get ready for the future world. Therefore, this action research aims to promote scientific literacy, in the area of plant growth by using…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Science and Society, Environmental Education
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Yuenyong, Chokchai; Narjaikaew, Pattawan – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
Education and political leaders worldwide are increasingly placing emphasis on developing scientific literacy. This also is the case in Thailand with science education influenced by educational reform in 1999, in which the goals of science education are shaped by the notion of scientific literacy. Thai science education emphasizes the scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science and Society, Educational Change, Foreign Countries