Reflecting Socio-Scientific Issues for Science Education Coming from the Case of Curriculum Development on Doping in Chemistry Education
Miriam Stolz 1, Torsten Witteck 1, Ralf Marks 1, Ingo Eilks 1 *
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1 University of Bremen, GERMANY* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Socio-scientific issue-based science education has been suggested for promoting general educational skills development in science classes. However, there is a lack of operationalized criteria, which can be used to reflect upon societal issues to whether turning them into issues for science classroom instruction. This paper describes a case study based on Participatory Action Research in science education. A lesson plan based on the socio-scientific issue of doping in professional sports and in fitness studios was designed and cyclically refined by a group of teachers and science education researchers. Along this case, together with previous studies of SSI-oriented curriculum development, the action research group started reflecting on the question of operational criteria for reflecting and carrying out socio-scientific issues in science classroom situations. This paper discusses the structure of the above-mentioned lesson plan. Experience gained during lesson plan development and testing will be reported upon. Suggestions stemming from teacher group discussions about the criteria chosen for reflecting socio-scientific issues for classroom use will also be presented.

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Article Type: Research Article

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 4, 361-370

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.945a

Publication date: 14 Dec 2013

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