The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments

Ralf Marks; Marc Stuckey; Nadja Belova; Ingo Eilks

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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Ralf Marks ¹, Marc Stuckey ¹, Nadja Belova ¹, Ingo Eilks ¹ ^*

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¹ University of Bremen, GERMANY^* Corresponding Author

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This paper reflects the theory and practice of societal-oriented science education in the past and present of German science teaching. Starting from a quite unique German justification for more thorough societal-oriented science education and some historical reflections a model for socio-scientific issues-based science teaching will be presented. The model was developed and operated in the last ten years in Germany along many cases of curriculum design and classroom-based research. Along selected cases it will be discussed how the curriculum design and action research triggered innovation process contributes to theory development in the field of socio-scientific issues-based science education.

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science education
STS
Socio-Scientific Issues
scientific literacy

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2014, 285-296

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Marks, R., Stuckey, M., Belova, N., & Eilks, I. (2014). The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 10(4), 285-296. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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Marks R, Stuckey M, Belova N, Eilks I. The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2014;10(4):285-96. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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Marks R, Stuckey M, Belova N, Eilks I. The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2014;10(4), 285-296. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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Marks, Ralf, Marc Stuckey, Nadja Belova, and Ingo Eilks. "The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2014 10 no. 4 (2014): 285-296. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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Marks, R., Stuckey, M., Belova, N., and Eilks, I. (2014). The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 10(4), pp. 285-296. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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Marks, Ralf et al. "The Societal Dimension in German Science Education – From Tradition towards Selected Cases and Recent Developments". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 10, no. 4, 2014, pp. 285-296. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a