Overview
- Provides a detailed theoretical description of the development and nature of the STEPWISE curriculum and instructional framework
- Discusses how students are encouraged and enabled to self-direct primary research by using the STEPWISE framework
- Includes contexts in which the framework has been used as a basis for instruction in elementary, secondary, tertiary educational contexts and in informal educational situations
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE, volume 14)
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Documentaries
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- After school science
- Biocapitalism
- Cultural-historical activity
- Food justice education
- SSI
- STEPWISE
- STSE
- School science
- Science classroom
- Science clubs
- Science teacher education
- Science teaching
- Scientific literacy
- Socio-scientific issues
- Student-led action research
- Youth activism
- citizen research
- citizen actions
- critical theory
About this book
This edited volume provides theoretical and practical resources relating to the ‘STEPWISE’ curricular and instructional framework. ‘STEPWISE’ is the acronym for Science & Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies & Environments. It is a framework for organizing teaching and learning domains in ways that prioritize personal and social actions to address ‘critical socioscientific issues’ — that is, controversial decisions by powerful individuals/groups about science and technology (and related fields) that may adversely affect individuals, societies and/or environments. The book contains chapters written by and/or with teachers who have used STEPWISE to guide their instructional practices, as well as chapters written by education scholars who have used a range of theoretical lenses to analyze and evaluate STEPWISE — and, in several cases, described ways in which it relates to (or could relate to) their practices and/or ways in which the framework might logically be amended. Overall, this book offers educators, policy makers and others with resources useful for arranging science and technology education in ways that may assist societies in addressing significant potential personal, social and/or environmental problems — such as dramatic climate change, preventable human diseases, species losses, and social injustices — associated with fields of science and technology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies and Environments
Book Subtitle: STEPWISE
Editors: Larry Bencze
Series Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55505-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55503-4Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85679-7Published: 26 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55505-8Published: 21 June 2017
Series ISSN: 1879-7229
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7237
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 689
Number of Illustrations: 145 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Sociology of Education, Teaching and Teacher Education