Looking to the future : : building a curriculum for social activism / / Derek Hodson.

In advocating an action-oriented and issues-based curriculum, this book takes the position that a major, but shamefully neglected, goal of science and technology education is to equip students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to confront the complex and often ill-defined socioscienti...

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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (413 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Scientific Literacy Revisited
  • Confronting Socioscientific Issues
  • Building a Curriculum
  • Turning the Spotlight on Science
  • Turning the Spotlight on Science Education
  • Strategies, Responsibilities and Outcomes
  • Teaching Ethics
  • Confronting Environmental Issues
  • Place, Community and Collective Action
  • Making it Happen
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.