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Oral, Sevket Benhur – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
What it means to be human is inherently incomplete or in a state of permanent mutability. This is excellent for it opens the way to the questions of the inhuman, posthuman, and nonhuman to take center stage in the analysis of what it means to be a subject, which is a core question for education. The question of the inhuman at the core of the human…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Psychiatry, Educational Theories, Environment
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Karakas, Hamdi; Eyceyurt Turk, Gülseda – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
The science curriculum in the Turkish education system includes socioscientific issues (SSI) as a context for developing students' reasoning skills, scientific thinking habits, and decision-making skills from an early age. Conducting activities on real problems with teachers and pre-service teachers based on SSI and making decisions considering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Thinking Skills
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Preble, Brian C. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2015
The manipulation of the natural world in the form of plant materials to design, control, and grow desirable agricultural commodities was central to the establishment and advancement of civilization. Modern developments in genetically modified organisms (GMOs or biologically engineered foods) can trace their origins to macro practices developed and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Engineering, Biotechnology, Food, STEM Education
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Ceyhan, Busra; Sahin, Nurrettin – Education Sciences, 2018
The purpose of the current study was to determine the science and classroom teachers' ethical sensitivities towards the issues of technology and the environment. Thus, the current study was conducted on 239 science and classroom teachers. The study employed the mixed method, in which qualitative and quantitative methods are used together. The…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes, Environment
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Chen, Shao-Yen; Chu, Yih-Ru; Lin, Chen-Yung; Chiang, Tzen-Yuh – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
Modern biotechnology is one of the most important scientific and technological revolutions in the 21st century, with an increasing and measurable impact on society. Development of biotechnology curriculum has become important to high school bioscience classrooms. This study has monitored high school students in Taiwan on their knowledge of and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Scientific Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Frey, Douglas D.; Guo, Hui; Karnik, Nikhila – Chemical Engineering Education, 2013
This article describes the assembly of a simple, low-cost, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system and its use in the undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory course to perform simple experiments. By interpreting the results from these experiments students are able to gain significant experience in the general method of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Science Laboratories
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Kaya, Volkan Hasan; Elster, Doris – Online Submission, 2017
This empirical study intends to present core results of the change in environmental literacy of German students by analysing PISA 2006 and 2015 data. The study is carried out within the scope of environmental literacy in science education. The data are based on findings of both PISA 2006 data (N= 4891) and PISA 2015 data (N= 6504) of German…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes
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Murray, Corey – Community College Journal, 2007
This article talks about a joint effort between the National Science Foundation and the nation's community colleges that helps students secure jobs in technical career fields. It describes Advanced Technological Education Program (ATE), National Science Foundation's (NSF's) premier initiative with two-year colleges that was created in response to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Market, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Hause, Ellen M., Ed. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2008
The goals of the MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program, supported by the National Science Foundation and administered by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), are to provide technical assistance and networking opportunities for the purpose of improving community college programs that prepare technicians in the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Professional Development, Technical Assistance, Social Networks