Science, Society and Schools : Teaching Socio-scientific Issues

In many industrialized countries, reforms in school science education have meant that socio-scientific issues are now established in the science curricula, perceived by many to be at the expense of traditional academic science.

In the UK, for example, these changes are prominent in the current reforms to the science curriculum for 14-19 year olds.

The book will: * examine the assumptions behind the reforms; * propose new aims critically aligned to the meaning of citizenship in pluralist and democratic states; * discuss a range of pedagogies for teaching socio-scientific issues; * present new pedagogic models for teaching socio-scientific issues; * exemplify practically-based approaches to teaching socio-scientific issues, taking a range of examples throughout the world; * present a bibliography for further reading.