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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden socio-scientific issues..
1. Handling socio-scientific controversy: Students' reasoning through digital inquiry
Sammanfattning : The ambition of this dissertation is to develop knowledge of students’ reasoning and digital inquiry about socio-scientific controversies (SSCs) in science education contexts. Motivating this research is the vast access to information on SSCs that have become readily available to us through network-based digital media and the challenge of selecting, analyzing and evaluating claims from various disciplines and perspectives. LÄS MER
2. A Discourse Perspective on the Learning of Biotechnology
Sammanfattning : Analyses of how students and a professor in an introductory university biotechnology course justify and evaluate knowledge claims considering GM food are reported in this licentiate thesis. In the public discussion of Genetically Modified (GM) food the representations of science as a social good, conducted in the public interest to solve major problems are being subjected to intense scrutiny and questioning. LÄS MER
3. Att erbjuda och realisera syften : En didaktisk modellering av undervisning om ett socio-vetenskapligt dilemma i naturkunskap
Sammanfattning : This study is performed as a Didactic Modelling project where a researcher and a teacher work closely together to make use of research findings concerning organizing purposes, content selection and lesson sequencing. The general question in this study is how Didactic Modelling can be used to design, test and adapt a lesson sequence in a Natural Science course (Naturkunskap) in upper secondary school Y11, Y12. LÄS MER
4. Att ta ställning : Gymnasieelevers argumentation och beslutsfattande om sociovetenskapliga dilemman
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to explore students’ argumentation and decision-making relating to authentic socioscientific issues (SSI). The ability to make informed decisions about socio scientific issues has been recognized to be an important element in science education to achieve the goal of scientific literacy. LÄS MER
5. Simulerad verklighet i gymnasieskolans fysik : En designstudie om en augmented reality simulering med socio-naturvetenskapligt innehåll
Sammanfattning : This thesis takes its standpoint in the declining interest for science studies in Sweden and abroad. According to Dillon and Oshorne (2009), science education is not conceived as an education for the lllajority of students. It is targeted at supplying the society with future scientists, ignoring the need for a science education for all students. LÄS MER