Part 7 : Scientific literacy and socio scientific issues

Co-editors : Virginie Albe and Bob Evans

Teaching about scientific literacy, science and citizenship education, science and media education, information literacy, informal reasoning and critical thinking, decision making, debates on socioscientific issues (SSI), discourse communities, social dimension of science and technoscientific practices, public engagement in science, schools', students' and teachers' engagement in socioscientific issues.

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• Introduction / Virginie Albe, Robert Evans
• Mass extinctions and loss of biodiversity: prior knowledge in science and literature high school students / António Almeida, Clara Vasconcelos, Joana Torres
• New approach in french middle school: a possible congruence between ssi and citizenship education / Catherine Barrue, Virginie Albe
• The pre-service physics teacher and the challenge of the socio-scientific issues-based approach / José Roberto Da Rocha Bernardo
• Bringing meaning to scientific literacy by making teachers values explicit / Rebecca Cooper, Deborah Corrigan
• Students’ opinions about a ssi: perspectives refered in their arguments about bears’ reintroduction / Ana Mª Domènech, Conxita Márquez
• Mimicking authentic societal practices for learning about the use of science-related information / Ingo Eilks, Ralf Marks, Mareike Burmeister
• Science education for civil society : bridging the gap with michel foucault and pierre bourdieu / Michael Geiger
• Influence of external aspects on students’ evaluation and judgement competence in chemistry / Julia Hostenbach, Maik Walpuski
• Photovoltaic as a possibility to gain “green electricity”– a socioscientific issue to increase students’ ability of decision making / Corinne Knittel, Silke Mikelskis-seifert
• Assessment of the efficiency of education for sustainable development in compulsory schooling: toward relevant indicators / Jean-marc Lange , Martine Janner, Patricia Victor
• Pondering deborah’s dilemma: assessing risk in scientific issues / Ralph Levinson, Phillip Kent, David Pratt, Cristina Yogui, Ramesh Kapadia
• Turkish secondary school students’ views on socio-scientific issues: resolution requires action / Fatih Çağlayan Mercan, Buket Yakmacı-güzel, Füsun Akarsu
• Investigation of primary school students’ attitudes towards technology / Gülcan Mıhladız, Meltem Duran, M. Zeki Yıldırım
• A framework for considering cross-cultural exchanges as a way to develop reasoning about environmental socioscientific issues / Olivier Morin, Laurence Simonneaux, Russell Tytler, Jean Simonneaux
• Moral development in school science teaching: exploring an interface of contributions / Roberto Nardi, Julio César Castilho Razera
• Critical readind activities to develop critical thinking in science classes / Begoña Oliveras, Conxita Márquez, Neus Sanmartí
• Talking science: the popular astronomy of camille flammarion / Silvania Sousa Do Nascimento
• Developing a module on stem cells : student-teachers’ media inquiry / Vasiliki Spiliotopoulou, Ioannis Papantoniou
• “aspects of technology” in science fiction texts – science fiction in science classroom: an empirical study / Ioanna Stavrou, Constantine Skordoulis
• University students’ decision-making on an environmental problem / Araitz Uskola, Gurutze Maguregi, María-pilar Jiménez-aleixandre