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Direct linkKlaver, Lida T.; Sins, Patrick H. M.; Walma van der Molen, Juliette H.; Guérin, Laurence J. F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
In this position paper, we introduce the concept of socioscientific capital (SSC) to denote students' resources that unequivocally play a part when students learn about and make decisions regarding socioscientific issues (SSIs). Students use a variety of resources when they engage with SSI. Our conceptualization of SSC expands on current…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Improvement, Science and Society, Resources
Baytelman, Andreani; Iordanou, Kalypso; Constantinou, Constantinos P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This study investigates whether university students' epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge about controversial socioscientific issues (SSIs) can predict the different types of arguments that students construct. Two hundred forty-three university students were asked to construct different types of supportive arguments--social, ethical, economic,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Prior Learning, Persuasive Discourse
Brand, Brenda R.; Glasson, George E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
The purpose of this ethnographic study was to explore the development of belief systems as related to racial and ethnic identities of preservice teachers as they crossed cultural borders into science teaching. Data were collected throughout a yearlong teacher preparation program to learn how early life experiences and racial and ethnic identities…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Beliefs, Preservice Teachers, Ethnography
