This review study synthesises 28 empirical research articles emphasising the learning of
morality aspects in the context of addressing socioscientific issues (SSI) in secondary …

Confucianism provides a specific view on the world held by many people living in several
Asian societies. It offers views on humans and nature that generally differ from other …

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 …

Modern technology has had and continues to have various impacts on societies and human
life in general. While technology in some ways defines the 'digital age'of today, discourses of …

In the socioscientific issues (SSI) classroom, students need to cross the border between the
subcultures of science (ie, school science vs. everyday science). Traditional school contexts …

The essential focus of this chapter is the question of what does it mean to be literate in
science? This chapter will advance three broad answers. In 2007, Roberts argued for two …

Post-truth is a social condition that threatens the trust in science and people's critical
thinking. This paper analyzes some of the educational responses to post-truth, claiming the …

Science education in the 21st century emphasizes the development of argumentation and
critical thinking (CT) skills for socioscientific issues (SSIs), which students can also apply to …

In this paper, we argue that the current science curricula are failing to educate students to be
competent outsiders to science. Historically, science education has rested on two premises …

National governments are concerned about the disconnection of young people from
science, which hampers the development of a scientifically literate society promoting …