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Appreciation of an Alternative: Dutch Alumni Look Back on Their Science Master, a Work-Based Learning vs a Research-Oriented Approach
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Grooters, Saskia; Zaal, Emma; Ongena, Yfke; Gerkema, Menno – Cogent Education, 2022
The Science, Business and Policy Program (SBP) of the University of Groningen has been a work-based learning program for science master students since two decades. This program, a direct consequence of the Bologna declaration of education in Europe, has a distinctive position in European science curricula. Here, we use a web-based survey…
Descriptors: Alumni, Masters Programs, Science Education, International Cooperation
Contextualizing Nature of Science Instruction in Socioscientific Issues
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Eastwood, Jennifer Lynne; Sadler, Troy D.; Zeidler, Dana L.; Lewis, Anna; Amiri, Leila; Applebaum, Scott – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two learning contexts for explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) instruction, socioscientific issues (SSI) driven and content driven, on student NOS conceptions. Four classes of 11th and 12th grade anatomy and physiology students participated. Two classes experienced a curricular…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Science and Society, Scientific Literacy
Children Making Sense of Science
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Murphy, Cliona; Murphy, Colette; Kilfeather, Paula – Research in Science Education, 2011
This study explored the effects that the incorporation of nature of science (NoS) activities in the primary science classroom had on children's perceptions and understanding of science. We compared children's ideas in four classes by inviting them to talk, draw and write about what science meant to them: two of the classes were taught by "NoS"…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction
Education through Fiction: Acquiring Opinion-Forming Skills in the Context of Genomics
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Knippels, Marie-Christine P. J.; Severiens, Sabine E.; Klop, Tanja – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The present study examined the outcomes of a newly designed four-lesson science module on opinion-forming in the context of genomics in upper secondary education. The lesson plan aims to foster 16-year-old students' opinion-forming skills in the context of genomics and to test the effect of the use of fiction in the module. The basic hypothesis…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Opinions, Test Construction
Attitudes to Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: An Interview-Based Study Comparing British and American University Teachers
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Bryant, John A.; Morgan, Cindy L. – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2007
An interview-based survey was carried out with British and American university teachers. In both countries there was widespread (but in the UK, not unanimous) support for the proposition that ethics should be taught to Bioscience students. Reasons included a need to help students engage with the ethical issues associated with their subject and the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Surveys
Contrasting Orientations: STSE for Social Reconstruction or Social Reproduction?
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Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth; Pedretti, Erminia – School Science and Mathematics, 2006
Over the last 20 years, science-technology-society-environment education (STSE) education has been advocated as a way to advance scientific literacy. However, STSE education represents a broad range of ideologies and orientations. The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast two different science curricula through a case study approach.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Ideology, Case Method (Teaching Technique)