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Direct linkHerman, Benjamin C.; Poor, Sarah V.; Oertli, Robert T.; Schulte, Kristen – Science & Education, 2023
Promoting a functional scientific literacy entails preparing people to effectively engage and make decisions regarding real-world socioscientfic issues (SSI) through consideration of the relevant products and processes of science, as well as social, cultural, environmental, and ethical factors. Students can develop a functional scientific literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Grade 4, Science and Society
Herman, Benjamin C.; Zeidler, Dana L.; Newton, Mark – Research in Science Education, 2020
Engaging environmental socioscientific issues (SSI) requires navigating diverse positions regarding people and nature. This qualitative investigation determined how 24 undergraduates experiencing place-based SSI instruction in the Greater Yellowstone Area (includes a national park and its surrounding areas in the western USA) expressed emotive…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes, Place Based Education, Undergraduate Students
Herman, Benjamin C.; Newton, Mark H.; Zeidler, Dana L. – Science Education, 2021
This investigation examined how a 6 week environmental topics course that included place-based socioscientific issues (SSI) instruction in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) in the United States of America influenced 21 postsecondary students' expressed socioscientific orientations of "Ecological Worldviews" (including…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Science and Society, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
Herman, Benjamin C.; Owens, David C.; Oertli, Robert T.; Zangori, Laura A.; Newton, Mark H. – Science & Education, 2019
In addition to considering sociocultural, political, economic, and ethical factors (to name a few), effectively engaging socioscientific issues (SSI) requires that students understand and apply scientific explanations and the nature of science (NOS). Promoting such understandings can be achieved through immersing students in authentic real-world…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science and Society, Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes
