Preparing citizens for a complex world: The grand challenge of teaching socio-scientific issues in science education

Peter Fensham

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3949-1_2

Preparing citizens for a complex world: The grand challenge of teaching socio-scientific issues in science education

Peter Fensham

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Abstract

The dawn of the twenty-first century encouraged a number of scientific and technological organisations to identify what they saw as 'Grand Challenges and Opportunities'. Issues of environment and health featured very prominently in these quite short lists, as can be seen from a sample of these challenges in Table 1. Indeed, the first two lists of challenges in Table 1 were identified as for the environment and for health, respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Science/Environment/Health. Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education
Editors	A Zeyer, R Kyburz-Graber
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	Springer
Pages	7-29
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9789048139491
ISBN (Print)	9789048139484
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3949-1_2
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Preparing citizens for a complex world: The grand challenge of teaching socio-scientific issues in science education. / Fensham, Peter.
Science/Environment/Health. Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education. ed. / A Zeyer; R Kyburz-Graber. Netherlands: Springer, 2012. p. 7-29.

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