Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy

ISBN-13: 9780415874366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 302 str.

Cedric John Linder;Leif Ostman;Douglas A. Roberts

Opis

Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up the debate on scientific literacy, particularly around the tension between theoretical and practical issues related to teaching and learning science. Uniquely drawing together and examining a rich, diverse set of approaches and policy and practice exemplars, the book takes a pragmatic and inclusive perspective on curriculum reform and learning, and presents a future vision for science education research and practice by articulating a more expansive notion of scientific literacy.

Spis treści

1. Overview: Scientific Literacy and the State of the Art in School Science Education  Part I: Curriculum Policy and Scientific Literacy  Introduction  2. Competing Visions of Scientific Literacy: Influence of a Science Curriculum Policy Image  3. Scientific Literacy for a Knowledge Society  4. Scientific Literacy: Content and Curriculum Making  Part II: Exploring Language Perspectives Introduction  5. Scientific Literacy, Discourse, and Epistemic Practices  6. Scientific Literacy and Students’ Movability in Science Texts  7. Literacy as Metaphor and Perspective in Science Education  8. Bilingual Scientific Literacy  Part III: Exploring Themes of Scientific Literacy  Introduction  9. The Development of Scientific Literacy  10. Scientific Literacy as Action  11. What Do Values and Norms Have to Do with Scientific Literacy?  12. An Inclusive View of Scientific Literacy  13. Scientific Literacy for Bringing in the Outsiders  Part IV: Science Teachers' Professional Development  14. In the Path of Linnaeus  15. The Vietnam Consortium Fellowship Program  16. Making an Innovation Grow  17. Professional Development of Teachers and Researchers in a Collaborative Development of Teaching Resources  18. Struggling Up Mount Improbable