In 2005, the UK Government published its sustainable development (SD) strategy Securing
the Future, which endorses education as a major vehicle for raising awareness and building …

This paper attempts to review the development of technology education over the last 20–25
years. The purpose is to reflect on how far the field has come and where it might go to …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science.
Approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and …

The literature provides confounding information with regard to questions about whether
students in high school can engage in meaningful argumentation about socio‐scientific …

This study explores how individuals make use of scientific content knowledge for
socioscientific argumentation. More specifically, this mixed‐methods study investigates how …

Current conceptions of citizenship favour public involvement in dialogue on controversial
issues such as GM food.'Students with higher levels of civic knowledge are more likely to …

This paper reports a qualitative study on students' informal reasoning on a controversial
socio‐scientific issue. Twenty‐two students from four science classes in Norway were …

Background: According to the Swedish curriculum teachers in all subjects have a
responsibility to integrate a holistic perspective of sustainable development (SD) and teach …

This paper develops a conceptual basis for a model on the teaching of socio‐scientific
controversial issues for secondary or high school students. I argue that the teaching of …

In today's educational landscape, social studies classes are characterized by controversial
issues (CIs) that teachers handle differently using various ideologies. These CIs have …