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Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez; Mauricio Suárez – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), "Inference and Representation. A Study in Modelling Science," Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press). On the other, we have…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Melvin A. Whitehead; Zak H. Foste – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
Prior scholarship has documented the experiences of white students engaging in racial dialogues in curricular and co-curricular contexts, however less research considers their conversations about race within their white peer and family networks, specifically within the context of anti-racist practice. This constructivist grounded theory study…
Descriptors: White Students, College Students, Student Attitudes, Racial Attitudes
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Hannah Park; Diane L. Schallert; Kyle M. Williams; Rachel E. Gaines; Jeonghyun Lee; Eunjeong Choi – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2024
This study extends research on perspectival understanding (Greeno & van de Sande, 2007) by using Du Bois' (2007) discourse work on stancetaking to investigate how students expressed their perspectives on course content through a variety of stances/positions as they negotiated meaning in online discussions. Participants were students in a…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Blended Learning
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Miles, James; Gibson, Lindsay – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
Since the early 2000s, the use of the term presentism has rapidly increased in both the historical discipline and public discussions of history. Most recently, presentism has been widely discussed and debated in articles about the pulling down and defacement of statues in countries around the world inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Historians, Definitions
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Levy, Brett L. M.; Learned, Julie E.; Harris, Cornelia B. – Social Education, 2022
Although many adults perceive young "digital natives" as savvy about our new media landscape, youth are regularly fooled by inaccurate stories and online scams. Furthermore, beyond the threat of outright false information, young people encounter confusing half-truths, misleading arguments, and disguised efforts to collect their personal…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Citizen Participation, Accuracy, Information Sources
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Wahono, Bevo; Chang, Chun-Yen; Nguyen, Thi To Khuyen – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study aims to test the effectiveness of a socio-scientific issue (SSI) based instruction through STEM-6E (engage, explore, explain, engineer, enrich, and evaluate). Controversial science topics (e.g. genetically modified organisms) in many countries, especially Indonesia, can be approached via integrated STEM education. One hundred and nine…
Descriptors: Science and Society, STEM Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Genetics