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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"socioscientific issues"”.
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Science Teachers Teaching Socioscientific Issues (Ssi): Four Case Studies
"Socioscientific issues (SSI) are a class of issues that represent the social, ethical, and moral aspects of science in society. The need for the inclusion of SSI into science curricula has been generally accepted, but relatively few science teachers have incorporated SSI into their courses. Most …
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The ‘Sanitization’ of Science Education: Connecting Theory and Practice of Socioscientific Issues in Elementary Science Classrooms
… between the theory and practice of teaching socioscientific issues (SSI) and the realities of primary science classrooms (grades one to three). An exploratory sequential mixed design (QUAN-QUAL) was employed. Primary educators (grades one to three) (N = 41) from a school board in Ontario, …
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Influence of views about the nature of science in decision-making about socio-scientific and pseudo-scientific issues
… course— in a situation about pseudoscientific, socioscientific issues (SSI), and non-controversial scientific issues, about which students had differing degrees of familiarity. At the same time, students’ views of the NOS were also assessed. Generally speaking, students’ views were naïve …
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Teaching Science for Social Justice: An Examination of Elementary Preservice Teachers' Beliefs
… and (3) the importance of taking action on socioscientific issues. This research responds to calls by critical scholars of teacher education who contend that beliefs in relation to equity, diversity, and multiculturalism need to be explored. They have found that many preservice teachers hold …
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Leveraging Uncertainty: A Framework for Argumentation in Socioscientific Ill-Structured Problem Solving
… standard building codes or equations. Complex or socioscientific problems have no obvious solution pathway, multiple perspectives, and require a well-reasoned and argued solution. Thus, ill-structured problems emerge from situated and societal contexts in which various aspects of the context or …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… populated with complicated, controversial socioscientific issues.
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Contextos de formação de pequenos grupos de pesquisas nas escolas: as questões sociocientíficas como eixo necessário para formação de professores
O presente trabalho apresenta como objetivo principal identificar quais são as condições necessárias para a formação e constituição de um Pequeno Grupo de Pesquisa (PGP) em escolas públicas. Entendemos por PGP um grupo formado por professores, gestores de escolas e pós-graduandos em que são …