Reappraising science education

Educating for Citizenship: Reappraising the Role of Science Education

New discoveries and technological inventions render the world increasingly complex. Fostering students’ scientific and technological literacy has therefore become a primary goal for many science educators. Yet the concept of scientific literacy is itself not at all clear. In this article, we contest the dominant approach, which defines scientific literacy in terms of what scientists produce or ...

Personalized medical education: Reappraising clinician-scientist training.

Revitalizing the Oslerian ideal of the clinician-scientist-teacher may help in the training of the next generation of translational researchers.

Cognitive Science and Science Education

" The quality of science education, like mathematics education, is a pervasive concern in educational improvement efforts. The cognitive orientation to the teaching of subject matter provides the context for Carey" s discussion of science education. This orientation begins with the idea that to understand something, one must integrate it with already existing knowledge schemata. The paradox of ...

Discovering Indigenous Science: Implications for Science Education

Indigenous science relates to both the science knowledge of long-resident, usually oral culture peoples, as well as the science knowledge of all peoples who as participants in culture are affected by the worldview and relativist interests of their home communities. This article explores aspects of multicultural science and pedagogy and describes a rich and well-documented branch of indigenous s...

Math and science education.