Debates in Science Education

ISBN-13: 9780367685157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 282 str.

Justin Dillon; Mike Watts

Opis

This fully revised second edition of Debates in Science Education explores the major issues that science teachers encounter in teaching their subject, encouraging the reader to make their own informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.

Spis treści

1. Debates in science education  Section 1. Debates about the nature and purpose of science education in contemporary society  2. The STEM, STEAM, STEAME debate: what does each term mean and what theoretical frameworks underpin their development?  3. To be debated: teachers should mobilize science students to help replace capitalism  4. Debates, intimacies, affects and agencies: science education in the ‘hard’ climate change era  5. Climate change education  6. Science education for citizenship: contributions from knowledge of and about science in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic  7. Science and anti-science  Section 2. Debates about the relationship between science and science pedagogy  8. Challenges in teaching using inquiry-based science  9. Science as practice?  10. Learning and assessment  11. Science pedagogies from an international and comparative perspective  Section 3. Debates about whole-school issues which have a science dimension  12. Inclusion and equity in science education  13. Faith, science and classrooms  14. Sensitive issues in science: the case of relationships and sex education  15. Transition from primary to secondary  16. Creativity in school science  17. Science and mathematics: the mathematical demands of science