Socio-scientific issues in science education: Contexts for the promotion of key learning outcomes

Science education scholars and practitioners have called for the contextualization of science content through the exploration of socially relevant issues, also known as socio-scientific issues (SSI), throughout the field’s history. In this chapter we explore the effectiveness of SSI as contexts for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sadler, T., Dawson, Vaille
Other Authors: Barry Fraser
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47317