Science | Environment | Health
Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education
Editors: Zeyer, Albert, Kyburz-Graber, Regula (Eds.)
Free Preview- Combines three key issues of the future: health, environment and informed citizenship
- Provides salient coverage of the important message of education for sustainability
- Offers an integrated overview of the topic
- May inspire a new and broadly welcomed approach to science education
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- About this book
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Health and the environment are important learning areas in science education and their significance is growing. Not only do they have high social relevance, but they are also close to students’ interests and needs. They provide many opportunities to unlock science with questions that are personally relevant to boys and girls and that inspire them to engage in science.
This book contains a selection of papers from prominent professionals in science, health and environmental education, who reflect on science education, each from their specific point of view. The core idea is to present well-founded perspectives on how science education may benefit from challenges stemming from both health and environmental education.
Specific reasons are discussed as to why these two areas are particularly legitimized to challenge science education, and their potential impact on a revision of science education is evaluated.
A new pedagogy for science¦environment¦health that yields interesting and relevant science education for students and teachers, and addresses the grand challenges of this century: what an attractive and rewarding project! The book will motivate teachers, teacher educators and science education researchers to take part in this on-going project.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Preparing Citizens for a Complex World: The Grand Challenge of Teaching Socio-scientific Issues in Science Education
Pages 7-29
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Socio-scientific Views on Environment and Health as Challenges to Science Education
Pages 31-48
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Scientific Literacy in Environmental and Health Education
Pages 49-67
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The Concept of Health Literacy
Pages 69-84
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Science | Environment | Health
- Book Subtitle
- Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education
- Editors
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- Albert Zeyer
- Regula Kyburz-Graber
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-90-481-3949-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-90-481-3949-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-3948-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9379-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 197
- Number of Illustrations
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Topics
