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Direct linkStahi-Hitin, Reut; Yarden, Anat – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Evolution is one of the most controversial scientific issues worldwide, mainly because of the presumed conflict with religion, which also arises in school biology classes. Here, we surveyed biology teachers from different Jewish sectors in Israel about their experiences teaching evolution and their perspective on relating to students' religious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, High School Students, Science Instruction
Solli, Anne; Hillman, Thomas; Mäkitalo, Åsa – Research in Science Education, 2019
In this article, we argue that students' unfolding discourse on socio-scientific issues (SSI) can be fruitfully analyzed by using dialogical theories of language and communication (Bakhtin 1986; Linell 2009). While research in science education often reports on how individual reasoning changes when bringing SSI into the classroom, we argue for the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Thinking Skills, Discourse Analysis
Download full textSuparman, Achmad Rante; Rohaeti, Eli; Wening, Sri – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
A socio-scientific issue is one of the learning techniques used today, which uses various scientific sources to make students think scientifically to conduct a dialogue and discuss solving a problem. Various problems in socio-scientific are controversial, requiring reasoning, and ethical evaluation in the decision-making process. A conflict…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Yahaya, Jamil Mikhail; Nurulazam, Ahmad; Karpudewan, Mageswary – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
A socioscientific issues integrated instruction was used in the study to resolve college students attitude towards sexually-themed science content. Some 200 college students participated in the study as experimental and control groups. The former consisting of 98 students from one college was taught the content using the socioscientific issues…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Sexuality, Course Content
Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The study investigated the relationship of nature of science (NOS) instruction and students' decision-making (DM) related to a controversial socioscientific issue about genetically modified food. Participants were ninth-grade students in four intact sections (two regulars and two honors) in a public high school in the Midwest. All four groups were…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Scientific Principles, Genetics, Engineering
Brouse, Deborah E. – 1985
Maintaining a balance between population and the resources needed to sustain life on earth is a critical challenge. This teaching unit focuses on this challenge by providing teachers with information and activities on both the national and global impacts of population growth. The document contains: (1) basic information about the population…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Ecology, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
