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Tidemand, Sofie; Nielsen, Jan Alexis – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Previous research has documented that students who engage with socioscientific issues can acquire some of the complex competences and skills typically related to scientific literacy. But an emerging field of research on science teachers' understanding and use of socioscientific issues, has documented that a range of challenges hinders the uptake…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Rasmussen, Klaus – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper takes an institutional perspective on the topic of sustainability in order to analyse how this "idea" enters science teacher education through an interdisciplinary approach. It shows how the development and implementation of a course for Danish pre-service teachers was conditioned and constrained by a complex web of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Teachers, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Blasco, Maribel – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
The article proposes an approach, broadly inspired by culturally inclusive pedagogy, to facilitate international student academic adaptation based on rendering tacit aspects of local learning cultures explicit to international full degree students, rather than adapting them. Preliminary findings are presented from a focus group-based exploratory…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Teaching Methods, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment