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Anthony, Robert J.; Tippett, Christine D.; Yore, Larry D. – Research in Science Education, 2010
Science literacy leading to fuller and informed participation in the public debate about science, technology, society, and environmental (STSE) issues that produce justified decisions and sustainable actions is the shared and central goal of the Pacific CRYSTAL Project. There is broad agreement by science education researchers that learners need…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Science Programs, Visual Literacy, Science Teachers
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Beard, Lisa; Ciesielski, Peter; Hijazi, Frederick – Science Teacher, 2010
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), funded by the National Science Foundation, offer teachers an opportunity to participate in current, hands-on scientific research in laboratories across the United States. These experiences provide an avenue for teachers to understand the process of research and gain insight on emerging technologies with the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Scientific Research, Laboratories, Teaching Methods
Arslan, Berna – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation explores the ways in which the Islamic Fethullah Gulen community engages with science as a response to globalization and modernity. Framed with the theoretical discussions on multiple modernities, it investigates how the community contests for hegemony in the field of science against the project of secular modernity, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Sciences, World Views
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Liu, Xiufeng – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
The late 20th century and beginning of 21st century have witnessed unprecedented rapid economic development due to advances in technology and globalization. In response to this development, a renewed call for science literacy has become louder in the USA and many other countries. Common to all science education reforms around the world is emphasis…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Science Activities, Global Approach, Educational Change
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Zernov, V. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2009
At the present time, the production of science-intensive goods in the world accounts for over 50 strategic technologies (macrotechnologies). The top seven most highly developed economic countries that, according to estimates, possess 50 to 60 macrotechnologies, control four-fifths of that market. It used to be that in terms of the level of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Competition
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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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Cullen, Clara – History of Education, 2009
The Museum of Irish Industry in Dublin, in its short existence (1845-1867) facilitated the access of ordinary people to popular scientific education, became a "cause celebre" and was defended by popular protest when the government recommended its abolition in 1862. Its Director, Sir Robert Kane (1809-1890) was not only an advocate of…
Descriptors: Industrial Education, Social Life, Educational History, Museums
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Pierret, Chris; Friedrichsen, Patricia – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009
The intersection of science and our society has led to legal and ethical issues in which we all play a part. To support development of scientific literacy, college science courses need to engage students in difficult dialogues around ethical issues. We describe a new course, Stem Cells and Society, in which students explore the basic biology of…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Genetics, Scientific Research, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Pandian, M. Paul – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
Technology has revolutionized the concept of libraries. Networking and computing technologies have now become sufficiently advanced to support the design and deployment of large digital libraries which are capable of supporting the conventional end-user functions. Digital libraries are a natural extension of the evolution in which libraries have…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology, Library Services
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Kalay, Yehuda E. – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
This article summarizes a few key results of a workshop, held in the University of California Berkeley in June 2006, organized by the Center for New Media and supported by Elsevier, the leading publisher of scholarly journals. The workshop focused on the following questions: How will scientific publishing be affected by New Media? How will the new…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Group Behavior, Workshops, Science and Society
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Macleod, Roy – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2008
In 1925, A.J. Balfour, first Earl Balfour and author of the famous "Balfour Declaration", attended the inauguration of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His education and experience of foreign policy equipped him to take a prominent role. However, the conditions of strife-torn Palestine weighed heavily upon him, and raised wider…
Descriptors: Economic Development, War, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Workman, Thomas A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
There is no doubt that as technology continues to change, the generation of students will change also. The best preparation, then, is to train one's own mind to think digitally so that one can best create policies, programs, and interactions that enable a student to connect the two worlds in ways that are productive, satisfying, and meaningful.…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Internet, College Students, Subcultures
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Douglass, John Aubrey – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2008
Research universities throughout the world are part of a larger effort by countries to bolster science and technological innovation and compete economically. The United States remains highly competitive as a source of high-tech innovation because of a number of market positions, many the results of long-term investments in institutions (such as…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Research Universities, Competition, Global Approach
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2008
Using imaging technology that can probe the deepest workings of the brain, researchers have found that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are using less of a certain part of their brains to hold back their itchy trigger fingers, compared with typically developing children performing the same task. This information was shared…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Brain, Lateral Dominance
Steinbach, Sheldon Elliot – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Biotechnology, usually commercialized in collaboration with the private sector, has been among the most fruitful university-based research endeavors, for the public as well as universities. Biological medications have made possible crucial advances in the treatment of life-threatening illnesses and yielded significant royalty streams for the…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Intellectual Property, School Business Relationship, Biotechnology
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