Engaging with controversial science issues - a professional learning programme for secondary science teachers in New Zealand

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Engaging with controversial science issues - a professional learning programme for secondary science teachers in New Zealand

Internationally there is concern that many science teachers do not address controversial science issues in their science classrooms, and there is a perception amongst many science teachers that science is about the delivery of facts, and that it is value-free. However with the increasingly complex,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Saunders, Kathryn Jean
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2009
Subjects:	controversial science issues professional learning programme secondary science teachers in New Zealand
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1880

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