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Saito, Carlos Hiroo – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2022
"Dolphin Tale" is a movie about a dolphin that loses its tail after being entangled in a crab trap line and obtains a prosthetic tail. The movie was presented to support environmental education classes at the University of Brasilia. Over a period of five years, 210 Brazilian undergraduate and graduate students answered questionnaires…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Values, Biodiversity
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Laslo, Esther; Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2021
Recent conceptualizations of science literacy, a key aim of contemporary science education, suggest defining it as a function of actual uses of science in daily life. We characterize expressions of science literacy in online authentic public discourse, using content analysis of a year's worth of widely-read Israeli online news site coverage of…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Internet, Discussion Groups, Animals
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Pierce, Clayton – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
This article uses actor network theory (ANT) to develop a more appropriate model of scientific literacy for students, teachers, and citizens in a society increasingly populated with biotechnological and bioscientific nonhumans. In so doing, I take the recent debate surrounding the first genetically engineered animal food product under review by…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Social Theories, Science and Society, Biological Sciences
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Brattstrom, Bayard H. – American Biology Teacher, 1999
Presents results of a pretest/posttest measure for assessing scientific literacy that was given to a general biology class for nonmajors. Test questions are listed and include items covering popular biology-related misconceptions. (WRM)
Descriptors: Animals, Biology, Evolution, Higher Education