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Proponents of science, technology and society (STS) education advocate a literacy grounded in the context of ethical, individual and social responsibility. Accordingly, STS programs and themes have been designed and developed in an effort to interpret science and technology as complex socially embedded enterprises, and to promote the development of a critical, scientifically and technologically literate citizenry capable of understanding STS issues, empowered to make informed and responsible decisions, and able to act upon those decisions. This paper posits that STS is a desirable and commendable goal. However, many dilemmas arise when educators begin to seriously address issues of power, knowledge, decision‐making, and responsible action in the science curriculum. In particular, this paper is a case study of an elementary teacher involved in STS education, with her grade three‐four class. The real‐life event or issue that triggers the STS curriculum unit is the school's septic tank overload. In describing this case, the author examines the potential power and problems of STS education. 相似文献
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Wiesenmayer Randall L. Rubba Peter A. 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》1999,8(2):137-144
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of employing an STS instructional model that addresses each of the four goal levels of STS education versus an instructional model containing only life science content, on seventh grade students' participation in citizenship action on STS issues. A modified version of the non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental research design was used with seventeen intact seventh grade life science classes, ten of which received STS instruction (N = 264) and seven of which received life science instruction (N = 136) over 20 school days. The STS instruction sequentially addressed each of the four goal levels for STS education. Data were collected using the Actions Taken on Public Issues instrument to measure citizenship behaviors. ANOVA and repeated measures ANOVA were employed to analyze data. It was concluded from the findings that employment of an STS issue investigation with an action instructional model that addressed the four goal levels of STS education significantly increased seventh grade students' participation in citizenship actions on STS issues. Implications and recommendations are provided. 相似文献
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《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2013,45(5):647-664
Despite claims that STS(E) science education promotes ethical responsibility, this approach is not supported by a clear philosophy of ethics. This paper argues that the work of Emmanuel Levinas provides an ethics suitable for an STS(E) science education. His concept of the face of the Other redefines education as learning from the other, rather than about the other. Extrapolating the face of the Other to the non‐human world suggests an ethics for science education where the goal of pedagogy is peace with each other and the world through the rupture, eros and justice that arises from openness to the demands of the world. Understanding the infinite responsibility of the invocation presented by the face of the Other radically reconceptualizes science education from STS(E) towards an E‐STS curriculum of responsiveness that critically employs the said of modern science and opportunities of experience to enable the next generation of citizens to act in peace to what the world is saying. 相似文献
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Wonyong Park 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2020,52(13):1434-1448
AbstractLooking at the current discourse on how to teach disaster, one apparent gap is that the scientific aspect of disaster is discussed and taught mostly in isolation from its human aspect. Disaster educators seem to be primarily interested in addressing issues such as social vulnerability, community resilience, personal action-related knowledge and emotion rather than the scientific basis of disasters, whereas science educators often fail to make connections between the scientific accounts of disasters and the social and political contexts that surround them. In this theoretical paper, I claim that this disconnect is problematic and that overcoming it is a key to understanding and teaching disaster in a more nuanced and comprehensive manner. Drawing primarily on science and technology studies (STS) on disaster, I explore the potential of interpreting disasters as failures of socio-technical systems, which helps us unearth the inner workings of the complex network of science, technology and society in the wake of calamities. STS challenges the dichotomous understanding of the material and social worlds and takes a view that they shape each other to constitute socio-technical systems. Taking such an approach to disaster allows a synthetic understanding of the natural, technological and human-made disasters that we are faced with in the age of uncertainty and complexity. Based on the ideas of STS and examples of recent disasters in East Asian countries, I argue that disaster education and science education can cross-pollinate in tackling the post-disaster hardship and cultivating responsible citizens. 相似文献
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国外理工类专业人文素质教育研究综述及启示 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
人的全面发展是教育的终极目标,国外大学主要通过STS（Science,Techonology ＆Social）教育和通识教育两种模式使理工类学生能兼具人文社会科学知识和人文精神。STS教育倡导科学、技术、社会教育的一体化,通识教育强调人文知识与人文精神的渗透性培养。教育是相通的,国外学者的理论探索及关、英、澳、日等国的实践探索为我国理工类专业人文素质教育的开展提供了许多借鉴。 相似文献
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Abstract Personal interviews with elementary teachers were conducted to identify and determine the relative importance of barriers to environmental education (EE) in Palouse-region public schools. Results indicated that lack of time (both in the school day and for preparation) was the most important barrier. Other important logistical barriers were lack of instructional materials and lack of funding. Conceptual barriers included a nearly exclusive focus on science and an emphasis on the cognitive aspects of EE. Another barrier stemmed from teachers' misgivings about their own competence to teach EE. Although teachers generally had positive attitudes toward EE, most lacked the commitment to actually teach EE. Recommendations for reducing these barriers are presented, as are specific recommendations for future research. 相似文献
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Radhika Gorur Mary Hamilton Christian Lundahl Elin Sundström Sjödin 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2019,40(1):1-15
ABSTRACTScience and Technology Studies (STS) has been surprisingly slow to become widely known and deployed in the field of education. Yet STS has a rich array of concepts and analytical methods to offer to studies of: knowledge practices and epistemic cultures; the interrelationship between states and knowledge; regulatory practices, governance and institutions; and classrooms, pedagogy, teaching and learning. Most importantly, it provides a fresh perspective on how power operates in ordering societies, disciplining actors and promoting ideas and practices. In this paper, we provide an introduction to STS and elaborate what it offers education scholars. Using examples from the emerging body of STS work in the field of education, and in particular from the papers in this special issue, we argue that STS is not only useful, but an exciting and generative form of critique – one that is especially suited to investigating contemporary issues in education policies and practices. 相似文献
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Science-technology-society (STS) has been identified by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the Departments of Education in a variety of states, and a variety of commissions and panels concerned with reform in science education as a new direction and goal for science education. Because most teachers are dependent upon textbooks for determining their curricula and teaching approaches, an investigation of 11 of the most frequently used secondary science textbooks in the U.S. were reviewed to determine the attention given to STS topics. The framework established by the Project Synthesis research team for STS was used to define STS topics. The 11 textbooks were examined in their entirety to determine space devoted to STS. Minimum interrater reliability was established at 0.80; any deviation resulted in further analysis. Comparisons were made of STS coverage by science disciplines and across the 7-12 grade levels. Results revealed that less than 7% of the narrative space is devoted to STS topics, with a range of 11.5% to 0.5%. Further, the coverage of STS topics decreases as grade level increases. A great discrepancy, therefore, exists between goals for science education (an STS emphasis) to actual coverage in the most frequently used textbooks. 相似文献
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Uri Zoller 《Higher Education in Europe》1990,15(4):5-14
Current human expectations are too high and cannot be met in the finite world of conflicting interests and unevenly distributed resources. While human activity has caused the current global environmental crisis, education has not prepared people to handle systems of such size and complexity. In order to survive, the time has come to make rational and intelligent decisions and accordingly to take appropriate actions. Thus, environmental education (EE) has become an imperative component of both science and liberal education. STES (Science‐Technology‐Environment‐Society)‐literate people in terms of the “Problem Solving‐Decision Making Act” is advocated as a precondition for the responsible and rational management of the environment in order to ensure future sustainable development; however, STES literacy requires critical system thinking capability on the part of all who are expected to actively and responsibly participate in the democratic decision‐making process. The needed leadership and contribution of the university in the endeavour to attain the ultimate goal of EE, STES‐literate citizens, is contingent on its readiness to restructure education including course offerings, teaching strategies, and evaluation means, as well as to modify environmental research programmes. 相似文献
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STS教育,是指以探讨科学(Science)、技术(Technique)与社会(Serious)关系为核心内容的教育,其主要目标是将科学教育与社会发展、社会生产、社会生活紧密结合,使学生在实际的技术情景和社会实践中去学习、理解科学与技术知识,并能够运用所学知识解决生产技术中的实际问题。在职业教育中实施STS教育,是知识经济时代的需要,也是职业教育教学改革的需要,对培养生产、建设、管理、服务第一线技术应用型人才的职业教育教学改革具有重要的现实意义和深远的历史意义。 相似文献
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韩俊 《广东教育学院学报》2007,27(3):110-112
开放实验室是我国科技馆建设的一种创新形式,是科技馆可持续发展的需要.开放实验室应该遵循STS的教育理念,从科学技术的发展趋势、社会热点以及深层次挖掘社会问题等宏观视角选题,体现科学技术对社会的作用、实验形式应该是探究式实验. 相似文献
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Abstract The education system in Greece has responded promptly to the need for environmental education (EE). However, the existing lack of relevant research may limit the functionality of EE programs in Greece. In this study the goal was to develop a baseline database that would allow effective planning of EE. Specifically, the study was conducted to provide information on the environmental knowledge of 5th and 6th graders in a Greek city. A total of 686 students were surveyed. The results indicated that children's knowledge about the environment is influenced by their immediate experience as well as by the content of their textbooks. 相似文献
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当下高校STS教育还存在重探究科学知识,轻道德学习的现象,这与它的教育目标——实现价值导向还存在差距。STS教育过程中要发现和宣扬科学活动中的道德价值,包括对受教育者的诚信教育、责任教育、竞争与协作教育、理想信念教育、科学精神教育五个方面。 相似文献
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Hannu Savolainen 《Prospects》2009,39(3):281-292
The implementation of inclusive education has become an internationally accepted goal. In this process a substantial challenge
is to simultaneously increase both equality and quality in inclusive education. This article discusses ways of achieving this
goal in light of recent research findings which indicate that it is possible to meet both goals at once. The findings of various
studies on the Finnish comprehensive school reform, along with recent learning outcomes, support this conclusion. During the
comprehensive school era, equality has increased, performance gaps have decreased, and student achievement has improved overall.
Possible reasons for this are that Finnish educational policy development has not followed international mainstream trends
and that flexible and extensive special education provisions have been built into our school system. Internationally acknowledged
requirements for a good education are competent teachers and a school system’s commitment to take on the responsibility of
educating children of all abilities. 相似文献
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STS教育以强调科学、技术与社会相互关系以及科学技术在社会生产、生活和发展中的应用为指导思想而组织实施的综合科学素质教育。发展和融通是STS教育的两个基本理念。通过建构合理的课程与教材体系、改革教学方法与手段、加强实践教学环节等策略有效地实施STS教育。 相似文献
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王文礼 《宁波大学学报(教育科学版)》2010,32(2):5-9
科学技术的迅速发展,带来了经济发达、社会繁荣,但与科学技术发展有关的重大社会问题也随之不断出现。为了解决这些问题,STS(Science,Technology and Society,科学、技术与社会)教育应运而生,《综合计划》是STS教育发展的里程碑,因此,重点介绍了《综合计划》的目标、模式、研究的结果和建议,分析了该计划的影响和问题。 相似文献
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Yeung Chung Lee 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2018,13(2):485-515
This paper draws together two important agendas in science education. The first is making science education more inclusive such that students from non-Western or indigenous cultures can benefit from culturally relevant curricula. The second is integrating technology into the curriculum under the umbrella of Science–Technology–Society (STS) education to embrace the social aspects of science, with technology serving as a bridge. The advancement of the first agenda is hindered by the pursuance by both Western and non-Western societies of narrow cultural and practical goals without considering the development of science and technology from a cross-cultural perspective. The second agenda is limited by the misconception that technology is applied science, leading to the exclusion from STS discussions of pre-science or indigenous technologies developed by non-Western cultures. Through selected case studies of the evolution of Chinese traditional technologies and their interaction with science, this paper offers a perspective from the Far East, and argues for situating culturally responsive science education in broader historical and cross-cultural contexts to acknowledge the multi-cultural contributions to science and technology. A form of cross-cultural STS education is advanced, encompassing the cultural basis of technological developments, technology diffusion, interactions of traditional technology with science, and the potential development of traditional or indigenous technologies. This approach provides a bridge between the existing universal science education paradigm promoted in the West and the different forms of multi-cultural education advocated by indigenous science educators. To translate theory into practice, a conceptual framework is proposed in which the essential transdisciplinary knowledge base, curricular goals, and pedagogical approaches are embedded. 相似文献
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The notion that students come to science courses with misconceptions has become quite widely accepted by those who follow or participate in education research. DiSessa and his colleagues (diSessa, 1988, 1993; Smith, diSessa, &; Roschelle, 1993/1994) have challenged the theoretical and empirical validity of this perspective and offered an alternative account of cognitive structure in phenomenological primitives or p-prims. The purpose of this article is to further clarify and contrast the two accounts: in particular, to consider their utility and generativity as conceptual tools for teachers. How may each perspective influence instructional perceptions and intentions? The article recounts a discussion about forces and motion from a high-school physics class, analyzes how a teacher may perceive students' participation in that discussion from either perspective, and considers what, based on those perceptions, the teacher may see as tasks for instruction. 相似文献
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Kwok Kuen Tsang 《Chinese Education & Society》2018,51(6):449-461
Abstract Since the mid 1990s, teacher burnout has become a crucial phenomenon in the Hong Kong education system, as increasing numbers of Hong Kong teachers have been reported as stressed, exhausted, and depersonalized in their teaching. In the Hong Kong community, including the academic circle, many people have applied the psychological theory of burnout to study the psychological causes of teacher burnout. However, this article argues that teacher burnout has become a social issue and is not a purely psychological phenomenon. Thus, it is important for us to identify the structural causes rather than the psychological causes of teacher burnout, to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of teacher burnout, and to develop better solutions. This article therefore theoretically analyzes how teacher burnout can be caused by certain structural forces, including structural education reforms, the administrative structure of schools, and the occupational and career structure of teaching, from the perspective of the sociological theory of work alienation. The article also gives recommendations for further studies based on the theoretical analysis. 相似文献
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从自然科学到社会科学,“范式”被广泛运用,比较教育学也不例外。20世纪80年代至今,中国大陆比较教育研究范式的相关文献逐年增长,且逐步呈现出多元化趋势,但同时也存在研究质量不高、缺乏研究深度等问题。预见未来,当代大陆比较教育将不断从哲学、文化学、社会学、政治学等多学科角度将新的研究范式引入已有研究范式体系中,开拓比较教育研究新局面。 相似文献