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Casado-Ledesma, Lidia; Cuevas, Isabel; Martín, Elena – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Scientific literacy can be promoted through oral and written argumentative practice. Collaborative discourse has proven effective in fostering conceptual understanding, especially when discussions are developed under deliberative goals. Likewise, writing tasks as argumentative syntheses stand out for its epistemic value and its contribution to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Synthesis
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Díez-Palomar, Javier; Font Palomar, Marta; Aubert, Adriana; Garcia-Yeste, Carme – SAGE Open, 2022
The participation of citizens in democratic societies depends on their ability to understand scientific knowledge and apply it to everyday life situations. Thus, promoting scientific literacy from an early age should be among the main priorities in democratic societies. Dialogic Scientific Gatherings (DSGs) have successfully promoted scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Elementary School Students, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries
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Alexandra Okada – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
National governments are concerned about the disconnection of young people from science, which hampers the development of a scientifically literate society promoting sustainable development, wellbeing, equity, and a green economy. Introduced in 2015 alongside Agenda 2030, the "open schooling" approach aims at enhancing students' science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science
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Martín-Gámez, Carolina; Erduran, Sibel – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2018
Background: Argumentation is an important discourse process in science that needs to be taught and learned as part of a repertoire of strategies to support the acquisition of scientific literacy. Research in science education indicates that beliefs or perceptions and the epistemological orientations of teachers influence their approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Science and Society, Energy
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Borrell, Y. J.; Muñoz-Colmenero, A. M.; Dopico, E.; Miralles, L.; Garcia-Vazquez, E. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
A Citizen Science approach was implemented in the laboratory practices of Genetics at the University of Oviedo, related with the engaging topic of Food Control. Real samples of food products consumed by students at home ("students as samplers") were employed as teaching material in three different courses of Genetics during the academic…
Descriptors: Food Standards, Foods Instruction, Genetics, Instructional Improvement
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Evagorou, Maria; Guven, Devrim; Mugaloglu, Ebru – Science Education International, 2014
The purpose of the paper is to present the framework and design of modules aiming to teach socio-scientific issues and the related pedagogy to pre-service teachers. Specifically, the work presented in this paper is part of the PreSEES project, a Comenius/LLP project with the main aim of engaging elementary and secondary pre-service teachers in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Jover, Jorge Nunez; Medina, Manuel; Cerezo, Jose A. Lopez – Science, Technology & Society, 1999
This article describes the process of institutionalization of science, technology, and society studies taking place in Cuba during the 1990s. It discloses the characteristics of the Master's program currently being developed in collaboration with the Universities of Havana, Cienfuegos (both in Cuba), Oviedo, and Barcelona (both in Spain). The…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries