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Adem Tasdemir; Zafer Kus – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2024
The main purpose of this study is to examine the epistemological beliefs and informal reasoning of science and social studies teachers about COVID-19, which is a controversial socioscientific issue. Qualitative research, specifically phenomenological design, was used in the study. During the data collection process, teachers' epistemological…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Science Teachers, Science and Society
Fitzgerald, Jill; Elmore, Jeff; Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Stenner, A. Jackson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Academic vocabulary networks were examined in 3 elementary grades textbook programs (first through fifth grade) in 3 domains--science, mathematics, and social studies. Within each program, a given network consisted of a focal domain-specific academic word and the collection of words from all grades that overlapped in meaning with the focal word.…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary Development, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
Sund, Per; Gericke, Niklas; Bladh, Gabriel – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
According to the curricula in various countries, teachers in the subject areas of science, social science and language are often expected to collaborate on cross-curricular issues such as sustainable development (SD) in the 9-year compulsory school. This study is based in Sweden and investigates teachers' teaching traditions. The overall aim of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
Molle, Daniella; Wilfrid, Jennifer; MacDonald, Rita; Westerlund, Ruslana; Spalter, Amanda – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2022
This paper discusses the purpose and content of the WIDA Framework for Equitable Instruction (FEI). The FEI is an instruction-focused resource designed to promote the equitable engagement in disciplinary learning and language development of multilingual learners. It complements the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework in that it…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Equal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Journell, Wayne – Curriculum Journal, 2013
This article addresses the need for researchers to move beyond discipline-specific approaches to research and practice and offers an example of how interdisciplinary understandings can increase knowledge in respective disciplines. The specific focus of the article is the shared challenges of broaching controversy in science and social studies…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Studies, Science Instruction
Campillo, José María; Sánchez, Raquel; Miralles, Pedro – English Language Teaching, 2019
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has been one of the major innovations that has been implemented in Spain in the last decades and many questions have arisen in relation to its effectiveness. The aim of this article is to report primary teachers' perceptions of the most relevant aspects of CLIL teaching of Science and Social Science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tian, Zhongfeng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In response to a growing call for developing flexible, multilingual spaces in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs, this paper explored how [Sánchez, M. T., O. García, and C. Solorza. 2018. "Reframing Language Allocation Policy in Dual Language Bilingual Education." Bilingual Research Journal 41 (1): 37-51.] translanguaging…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Reisman, Abby – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call on science and social studies teachers to engage in literacy instruction that prepares students for the academic rigors of college. The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) designed a framework to address the challenge of literacy-content integration. At the heart of the intervention are fill-in-the-blank…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Course Content, Common Core State Standards, Science Instruction
Cox, Robyn; O'Brien, Katherine; Walsh, Maureen; West, Helen – English in Australia, 2015
This paper reports on a 10 week vocabulary focused intervention based on the Word Generation program (Snow, 2002, 2010; SERP, 2011) in primary and secondary schools, which demonstrated clear improvements, particularly with students who are EAL/D learners. Teachers across English, Science, Maths and Social Sciences developed professional learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Secondary School Students, Academic Discourse, Intervention
Lin, Alex R.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Snow, Catherine E.; Taylor, Karen S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Communicative self-efficacy serves as an important link between discussing controversial issues and civic engagement because confidence in one's discourse skills is important to managing conflicting perspectives and developing solutions to community-based problems. Freely available to schools, "Word Generation" is a cross-content…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Literacy Education
Shillenn, James K.; Vincenti, John R. – 1981
This paper examines issues that K-12 science and social studies teachers need to keep in mind when teaching about nuclear power. The information needs to be presented in as objective a manner as possible. Science needs to become more social oriented. Team teaching should be encouraged. Elementary and secondary inservice teacher education is…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Science, Technology & Society, 1987
Profiles the Contemporary Liberal Arts Core Curriculum of Polytechnic University (New York). Provides the course syllabi for the four-course science, technology, and society sequence, which includes "Technology and Society in Historical Perspectives,""Introduction to Behavioral Science,""Ethics and Technology," and…
Descriptors: College Science, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Course Descriptions

Markowitz, Neil; Robottom, Ian – Journal of Environmental Education, 1987
Presents an account of developments in an environmental education course for practicing teachers in Australia. Reports on some of the changes that have taken place in the course and the cyclic revision patterns that have occurred between the course's theoretical rationale and its practical embodiment. (TW)
Descriptors: College Science, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Course Descriptions

Rodgers, Glen E.; Zolbrod, Paul G. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1986
Describes an interdisciplinary course, Images of Creation in Science and Poetry, which was designed for science, humanities, and social studies majors. Explains the chronological time lines that serve as the course's organizing themes. Includes an outline, the table of contents of the class manual, and student reactions to the program. (ML)
Descriptors: College Science, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Higher Education

Sinigalias, Pavlos I.; Turner, Sheila A. – School Science Review, 1997
Describes a project sponsored by the Association for Science Education (ASE) that has proved successful and is now known as Science across the World. This project aims at linking schools in all parts of the globe. Describes how Science across the World works and reports on the evaluation of its use. (DDR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries