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Building from Scientific Argumentation to Democratic Deliberation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Decision-Making about Socioscientific Issues
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Michelle E. Forsythe; Yun-Wen Chan – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
The ability to engage in informed decision-making about socioscientific issues (SSI) is an important aspect of scientific literacy. Although science knowledge and practice are necessary for developing solutions to SSI, additional skills are also needed to attend to the complex social, political, economic, and ethical concerns of such issues.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science and Society, Decision Making