The re-emergence of values in science education / / Edited by Deborah Corrigan, Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone.

• TeilnehmendeR: Gunstone, Richard F.,; Dillon, Justin,; Corrigan, Deborah,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]; 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes index.

Issues relating to values have always had a place in the school science curriculum. Sometimes this has been only in terms of the inclusion of topics such as ‘the nature of science’ and/or ‘scientific method’ and/or particular intentions for laboratory work that relate to ‘scientific method.’sometimes it has been much broader, for example in curricula with STS emphases. Of importance to aspects of this proposal is that different countries/cultures have had different traditions in terms of the place of values in the school [science] curriculum. One obvious very broad difference of this form is the central place in [science] education thinking in many European countries of bildung, and the complete absence of this construct from most [science] curriculum thinking in English speaking contexts. There are numbers of such country/cultural differences. In the 1990s many countries moved towards various conceptualizations of Outcomes Based Education - OBE (sometimes so labelled and sometimes not). It was usual (but not universal) for OBE focused science curricula to have constrained views of the values that should be implicit and explicit in curriculum; that is views concerned only with ‘the nature of science’ and ‘scientific method’ (both usually seen as quite unproblematic). Currently there are a number of education systems that are changing again, and choosing to move away from Outcomes Based Education (for example, South Africa and several Australian states). One of the most interesting features of many of these movements is the re-embracing of a wider view of the science curriculum, including a reconsideration of the nature and place of the values associated with science in the purposes for and approaches to science education.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Deborah Corrigan , Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone -- Why consider values and the science curriculum? / Richard Gunstone , Deborah Corrigan and Justin Dillon -- Values and science education - values in the intended curriculum / Richard Gunstone -- What should be the aim(s) of school science education? / Michael Reiss -- Democracy, scientific literacy and values in science education in the United States / Jane L. Lehr -- Diversity, values and the science curriculum / Gaell M. Hildebrand -- The value of science in African countries / Cliff Malcolm -- Science, the environment and citizenship / Justin Dillon and Alan Reid -- The valuing of technology in the science curriculum / Alister Jones -- Fostering interactions between the values of science and spirituality / Beverley Jane -- Values and science teaching - values in the implemented curriculum / Deborah Corrigan -- Values in the science classroom - the 'enacted' curriculum / Mary Ratcliffe -- Values in school science and mathematics education / Deborah Corrigan and Richard Gunstone -- Values associated with representing science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge / Amanda Berry , John Loughran and Pamela Mulhall -- Developing an ethically attentive practice / Larson Rogers , Gaalen Erickson and Jim Gaskell -- The contribution of information technology for inclusion of socio-scientific issues in science / Doris Jorde and Sonja Mork -- Values of science portrayed in out-of-school Contexts / Léonie Rennie -- Values and science learners / Justin Dillon -- Values in the measurement of students' science achievement in TIMSS and PISA / Peter Fensham -- Science education and youth's identity construction - two incompatible projects? / Camilla Schreiner and Svein Sjøberg -- Gender inclusive science education? / Helene Sørensen -- About the Authors / Deborah Corrigan , Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone -- Index / Deborah Corrigan , Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone -- Other titles of interest / Deborah Corrigan , Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone.