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Socioscientific Issues and the Affective Domain: Scientific Literacy's Missing Link.
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Sadler, Troy D. – 2002
The promotion of scientific literacy has become an important goal for science education, and the ability to negotiate socioscientific issues is at least one aspect of scientific literacy. This paper focuses on how the moral dimensions of socioscientific issues influence decision-making regarding these issues. Morality is examined from multiple…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Decision Making