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.