Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies and Environments
STEPWISE
Editors: Bencze, John Lawrence (Ed.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Foreword: The Significance of STEPWISE for Fostering Life-Long Sociopolitical Activism
Pages 3-18
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STEPWISE: A Framework Prioritizing Altruistic Actions to Address Socioscientific Issues
Pages 19-45
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School Science Ruling Relations and Resistance to Activism in Early Secondary School Science
Pages 49-66
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Activating Students’ Conceptions and Positions on STSE Issues in Preparation for Socio-political Activism
Pages 67-82
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Both Sides Now: Exploring the Art of Persuasion to Enhance Actions Within a STEPWISE Framework
Pages 83-91
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies and Environments
- Book Subtitle
- STEPWISE
- Editors
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- John Lawrence Bencze
- Series Title
- Cultural Studies of Science Education
- Series Volume
- 14
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-55505-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-55505-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-55503-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85679-7
- Series ISSN
- 1879-7229
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 689
- Number of Illustrations
- 145 b/w illustrations
- Topics
