The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education
This book is the first in the field to directly address moral reasoning and socioscientific discourse. It provides a theoretical framework to rethink what a "functional view" of scientific literacy entails by examining how nature of science issues, classr
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Science & Technology Education Library VOLUME 19 SERIES EDITOR William W. Cobern, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Tobin, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA EDITORIAL BOARD Henry Brown-Acquay, University College of Education of Winneba, Ghana Mariona Espinet, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Gurol Irzik, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Olugbemiro Jegede, The Open University, Hong Kong Reuven Lazarowitz, Technion, Haifa, Israel Lilia Reyes Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Columbia, Bogota, Colombia Marrisa Rollnick, College of Science, Johannesburg, South Africa Svein Sjøberg, University of Oslo, Norway Hsiao-lin Tuan, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan SCOPE The book series Science & Technology Education Library provides a publication forum for scholarship in science and technology education. It aims to publish innovative books which are at the forefront of the field. Monographs as well as collections of papers will be published.
The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education
Edited by
DANA L. ZEIDLER University of South Florida, Tampa, U.S.A.
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
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ISBN 1-4020-1411-2 (HB) ISBN 1-4020-3855-0 (PB)
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Contents Acknowledgements
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Introduction Norman G. Lederman
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SECTION I. MORAL REASONING 1
The Role of Moral Reasoning and the Status of Socioscientific Issues in Science Education Dana L. Zeidler & Matthew Keefer
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SECTION II. NATURE OF SCIENCE ISSUES 2 3 4
Socioscientific Issues in Pre-college Science Classrooms Fouad Abd-El-Khalick Exploring the Role of NOS Understandings in Decision-Making Randy L. Bell Beliefs in the Nature of Science and Responses to Socioscientific Issues Michael L. Simmons & Dana L. Zeidler
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SECTION III. CLASSROOM DISCOURSE ISSUES 5
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The Role of Argument During Discourse about Socioscientific Issues Dana Zeidler, Jonathan Osborne, Sibel Erduran, Shirley Simon & Martin Monk Integrating Science Education and Character Education Marvin W. Berkowitz & Patricia Simmons The A
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