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

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1083a

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

Publication date: 15 Dec 2014

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