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Molecular life science is one of the fastest-growing fields of scientific and technical innovation, and biotechnology has profound effects on many aspects of daily life—often with deep, ethical dimensions. At the same time, the content is inherently complex, highly abstract, and deeply rooted in diverse disciplines ranging from “pure sciences,” such as math, chemistry, and physics, through “applied sciences,” such as medicine and agriculture, to subjects that are traditionally within the remit of humanities, notably philosophy and ethics. Together, these features pose diverse, important, and exciting challenges for tomorrow''s teachers and educational establishments. With backgrounds in molecular life science research and secondary life science teaching, we (Tibell and Rundgren, respectively) bring different experiences, perspectives, concerns, and awareness of these issues. Taking the nature of the discipline as a starting point, we highlight important facets of molecular life science that are both characteristic of the domain and challenging for learning and education. Of these challenges, we focus most detail on content, reasoning difficulties, and communication issues. We also discuss implications for education research and teaching in the molecular life sciences. 相似文献
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Carl-Johan Rundgren 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2018,13(2):607-615
In this forum article, I reflect on issues related to the implementation of inquiry-based science education (IBSE) in different countries. Regarding education within the European Union (EU), the Bologna system has in later years provided extended coordination and comparability at an organizational level. However, the possibility of the EU to influence the member countries regarding the actual teaching and learning in the classrooms is more limited. In later years, several EU-projects focusing on IBSE have been funded in order to make science education in Europe better, and more motivating for students. Highlighting what Heinz and her colleagues call the policy of ‘soft governance’ of the EU regarding how to improve science education in Europe, I discuss the focus on IBSE in the seventh framework projects, and how it is possible to maintain more long-lasting results in schools through well-designed teacher professional development programs. Another aspect highlighted by Heinz and her colleagues is how global pressures on convergence in education interact with educational structures and traditions in the individual countries. The rise of science and science education as a global culture, encompassing contributions from all around the world, is a phenomenon of great potential and value to humankind. However, it is important to bear in mind that if science and science education is going to become a truly global culture, local variation and differences regarding foci and applications of science in different cultures must be acknowledged. 相似文献
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Carl-Johan Rundgren Lena A. E. Tibell 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2010,8(2):223-246
Images, diagrams, and other forms of visualization are playing increasingly important roles in molecular life science teaching
and research, both for conveying information and as conceptual tools, transforming the way we think about the events and processes
the subject covers. This study examines how upper secondary and tertiary students interpret visualizations of transport through
the cell membrane in the form of a still image and an animation. Twenty upper secondary and five tertiary students were interviewed.
In addition, 31 university students participated in a group discussion and answered a questionnaire regarding the animation.
A model, based on variation theory, was then tested as a tool for distinguishing between what is expected to be learned, what
is present in the visualizations, and what is actually learned by the students. Three critical features of the ability to
visualize biomolecular processes were identified from the students’ interpretations of the animation: the complexity of biomolecular
processes, the dynamic and random nature of biomolecular interactions, and extrapolation between 2D and 3D. The results of
this study support the use of multiple representations to achieve different learning goals. 相似文献
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During the past decade, numerous schools in Sweden have implemented education for sustainable development (ESD) as an explicit guiding approach in teaching. In this paper, we investigate the effect of this approach in comparison with that of pupils taught in ordinary schools. Accordingly, we introduce the concept of sustainability consciousness to represent the holistic view of sustainability. Within the concept of sustainability consciousness, we combine and investigate the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development in terms of sustainability knowingness, attitudes, and behavior. A Likert-scale questionnaire with 50 items was developed to evaluate pupils’ sustainability consciousness through a nationwide study in Sweden. A total of 1773 pupils from the 6th and 9th grades participated. The results indicated that the ESD profile schools had a small positive effect on the pupils’ sustainability consciousness, while in grade 9 the effect was negative. The implications for further ESD implementation are discussed. 相似文献
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Carl-Johan Rundgren Martin Eriksson Shu-Nu Chang Rundgren 《Science & Education》2016,25(9-10):1049-1071
This study aims to explore students’ argumentation and decision-making relating to an authentic socioscientific issue (SSI)—the problem of environmental toxins in fish from the Baltic Sea. A multi-disciplinary instructional module, designed in order to develop students’ skills to argue about complex SSI, was successfully tested. Seven science majors in the final year of their upper secondary studies participated in this study. Their argumentation and decision-making processes were followed closely, and data were collected during multiple stages of the instructional module: group discussions were audio recorded, the participants wrote reports on their decision making, and postexercise interviews were conducted with individual students. The analysis focused on the skill of evaluation demonstrated by the students during the exercise and the relationships between the knowledge, values, and experiences that they used in their argumentation. Even though all of the students had access to the same information and agreed on the factual aspects of the issue, they came to different decisions. All of the students took counter-arguments and the limitations of their claims into account and were able to extend their claims where appropriate. However, their decisions differed depending on their background knowledge, values, and experiences (i.e., their intellectual baggage). The implication to SSI teaching and learning is discussed. 相似文献
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Judith Lederman Norman Lederman Selina Bartels Juan Jimenez Mark Akubo Shereen Aly Chengcheng Bao Estelle Blanquet Ron Blonder Mariana Bologna Soares de Andrade Catherine Buntting Mustafa Cakir Heba EL-Deghaidy Ahmed ElZorkani Estelle Gaigher Shuchen Guo Arvi Hakanen Soraya Hamed Al-Lal Cigdem Han-Tosunoglu Annemarie Hattingh Anne Hume Serhat Irez Gillian Kay Ozgur Kivilcan Dogan Kerstin Kremer Pi-Chu Kuo Jari Lavonen Shu-Fen Lin Cheng Liu Enshan Liu Shiang-Yao Liu Bin Lv Rachel Mamlok-Naaman Christine McDonald Irene Neumann Yaozhen Pan Eric Picholle Ana Rivero García Carl-Johan Rundgren David Santibáñez-Gómez Kathy Saunders Renee Schwartz Frauke Voitle Jakob von Gyllenpalm Fangbing Wei Jocelyn Wishart Zhifeng Wu Huang Xiao Yalcin Yalaki Qiaoxue Zhou 《科学教学研究杂志》2019,56(4):486-515
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about scientific inquiry. However, a valid and reliable assessment has recently been developed and published, Views About Scientific Inquiry (VASI; Lederman et al. [2014], Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 51, 65–83). The purpose of this large-scale international project was to collect the first baseline data on what beginning middle school students have learned about scientific inquiry during their elementary school years. Eighteen countries/regions spanning six continents including 2,634 students participated in the study. The participating countries/regions were: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Mainland China, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. In many countries, science is not formally taught until middle school, which is the rationale for choosing seventh grade students for this investigation. This baseline data will simultaneously provide information on what, if anything, students learn about inquiry in elementary school, as well as their beginning knowledge as they enter secondary school. It is important to note that collecting data from all of the approximately 200 countries globally was not humanly possible, and it was also not possible to collect data from every region of each country. The results overwhelmingly show that students around the world at the beginning of grade seven have very little understandings about scientific inquiry. Some countries do show reasonable understandings in certain aspects but the overall picture of understandings of scientific inquiry is not what is hoped for after completing 6 years of elementary education in any country. 相似文献
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Nina Christenson Shu-Nu Chang Rundgren Dana L. Zeidler 《Research in Science Education》2014,44(4):581-601
In the present STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-driven society, socioscientific issues (SSI) have become a focus globally and SSI research has grown into an important area of study in science education. Since students attending the social and science programs have a different focus in their studies and research has shown that students attending a science program are less familiar with argumentation practice, we make a comparison of the supporting reasons social science and science majors use in arguing different SSI with the goal to provide important information for pedagogical decisions about curriculum and instruction. As an analytical framework, a model termed SEE-SEP covering three aspects (of knowledge, value, and experiences) and six subject areas (of sociology/culture, economy, environment/ecology, science, ethics/morality, and policy) was adopted to analyze students’ justifications. A total of 208 upper secondary students (105 social science majors and 103 science majors) from Sweden were invited to justify and expound their arguments on four SSI including global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO), nuclear power, and consumer consumption. The results showed that the social science majors generated more justifications than the science majors, the aspect of value was used most in students’ argumentation regardless of students’ discipline background, and justifications from the subject area of science were most often presented in nuclear power and GMO issues. We conclude by arguing that engaging teachers from different subjects to cooperate when teaching argumentation on SSI could be of great value and provide students from both social science and science programs the best possible conditions in which to develop argumentation skills. 相似文献
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Learning with technology during primary school years will equip students with dispositions to continue learning with evolving technology throughout their lifetime and it is the responsibility of the teacher to develop this digital competence (DC) in the classroom. The aim of this research was to investigate Maltese primary class teachers’ DC and to recommend new training on technology integration in teaching practices. Semi-structured individual interviews with 26 primary teachers (23 females and three males) and the teaching material used in the classroom were the sources of data in this study. Directed content analysis was applied, where a new area in DC, the creation of modes of communication, was revealed. Recommendations for teacher training in the areas of DC are suggested. 相似文献
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Nina Christenson Shu-Nu Chang Rundgren Hans-Olof H?glund 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(3):342-352
To achieve the goal of scientific literacy, the skills of argumentation have been emphasized in science education during the
past decades. But the extent to which students can apply scientific knowledge to their argumentation is still unclear. The
purpose of this study was to analyse 80 Swedish upper secondary students’ informal argumentation on four socioscientific issues
(SSIs) to explore students’ use of supporting reasons and to what extent students used scientific knowledge in their arguments.
Eighty upper secondary students were asked to express their opinions on one SSI topic they chose through written reports.
The four SSIs in this study include global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO), nuclear power, and consumption.
To analyse students’ supporting reasons from a holistic view, we used the SEE-SEP model, which links the six subject areas
of sociology/culture (So), environment (En), economy (Ec), science (Sc), ethics/morality (Et) and policy (Po) connecting with
three aspects, knowledge, value and personal experience (KVP). The results showed that students used value to a greater extent (67%) than they did scientific knowledge (27%) for
all four SSI topics. According to the SEE-SEP model, the distribution of supporting reasons generated by students differed
among the SSI topics. Also, some alternative concepts were disclosed in students’ arguments. The implications for research
and education are discussed. 相似文献