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The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education

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Editors:
  1. Dana L. Zeidler

    1. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

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  • The first volume to directly address moral reasoning and socioscientific discourse
  • Provides a theoretical framework to rethink what a "functional view" of scientific literacy entails by examining how nature of science issues, classroom discourse issues, cultural issues, and science-technology-society-environment case-based issues contribute to developing habits of mind about socioscientific content
  • Excellent for both theoretical and practical purposes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education (CTISE, volume 19)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Norman G. Lederman
      Pages 1-4

  3. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Role of Moral Reasoning and the Status of Socioscientific Issues in Science Education

      • Dana L. Zeidler, Matthew Keefer
      Pages 7-38

  4. Nature of Science Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Socioscientific Issues in Pre-College Science Classrooms

      • Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
      Pages 41-61

    3. Exploring the Role of Nature of Science Understandings in Decision-Making

      • Randy L. Bell
      Pages 63-79

    4. Beliefs in the Nature of Science and Responses to Socioscientific Issues

      • Michael L. Simmons, Dana L. Zeidler
      Pages 81-94

  5. Classroom Discourse Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. The Role of Argument During Discourse About Socioscientific Issues

      • Dana L. Zeidler, Jonathan Osborne, Sibel Erduran, Shirley Simon, Martin Monk
      Pages 97-116

    3. Integrating Science Education and Character Education

      • Marvin W. Berkowitz, Patrica E. Simmons
      Pages 117-138

    4. The Assessment of Argumentation and Explanation

      • Richard Duschl
      Pages 139-161

  6. Cultural Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Morality, Spirituality and Science in the Elementary Classroom

      • Klaus Witz, Nancy MacGregor
      Pages 165-182

    3. Recognizing and Solving Ethical Dilemmas in Diverse Science Classrooms

      • Cathleen C. Loving, Susan W. Lowy, Cori Martin
      Pages 183-194

    4. The Morality of Inclusive Verses Exclusive Settings

      • J. Randy McGinnis
      Pages 195-216

  7. Science-Technology-Society-Environment Social and Case-Based Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Teaching Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) Education

      • Erminia Pedretti
      Pages 219-239

    3. Moral Reasoning and Case-Based Approaches to Ethical Instruction in Science

      • Matthew Keefer
      Pages 241-259

    4. Scientific Errors, Atrocities and Blunders

      • Troy D. Sadler, Dana L. Zeidler
      Pages 261-285
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About this book

Norman G. Lederman I remember moving into my graduate student office at Syracuse University in 1979 as if it was yesterday. Directly across the hall was another graduate student office with the door closed. On the door was an index card with the following quote: Nothing happened in 1945 except that we changed the scale of our indifference to man; and conscience, in revenge, for an instant became immediate to us. Before the immediacy fades in a sequence of televised atomic tests, let us acknowledge our subject for what it is: civilization face to face with its own implications. The implications are both the industrial slum which Nagasaki was before it was bombed, and the ashy desolation which the bomb made of the slum. And 1 civilization asks of both ruins, ‘Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t Ma Baby?’ The quotation focused around an individual’s viewing and reaction to the destruction in Nagasaki following the dropping of a nuclear bomb. The quote was from Bronowski’s Science and Human Values and it was pasted to the door of Dana Zeidler’s office. What goes around comes around in educational circles and I was unavoidably reminded of the quotation on Dana’s door when reading this volume in preparation for the writing of this Foreword. I am not simply reminiscing about my first day as a PhD student, but rather I think the Bronowski quote cuts to the core of the text you are about to read.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    Dana L. Zeidler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education

  • Editors: Dana L. Zeidler

  • Series Title: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4996-X

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1411-6Published: 31 July 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3855-6Published: 09 March 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4996-5Published: 29 April 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1878-0482

  • Series E-ISSN: 1878-0784

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 311

  • Topics: Science Education, Ontology, Ethics, Learning & Instruction

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