Environmental socio-scientific issues as contexts in developing scientific literacy in science education: A systematic literature review

Kumar, Vishal; Choudhary, Sanjiv Kumar; Singh, Rajni

doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100765

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“…One way to contribute to the didactics of eco-social education is by using socio-scientific issues, a didactic tool that involves proposing solutions to address a current, complex, and controversial problem, considering scientific evidence as well as social, economic, religious, ethical, or political aspects [29,30]. In this sense, there is no single solution; it is a matter of resolving a dilemma by prioritizing certain issues over others [31].…”

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Is Consuming Avocados Equally Sustainable Worldwide? An Activity to Promote Eco-Social Education from Science Education

Guevara-Herrero

2024

Education Sciences

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The socio-environmental crisis in which we find ourselves makes it necessary to promote a citizenship capable of facing global challenges in an informed, critical, and participatory manner. Given the shortcomings of environmental education practices and the limitations of teachers to develop effective activities in their classrooms, it is necessary to review and redefine teacher training. In accordance with the case study research method, we present the results of the implementation of an activity for teacher training on environmental socio-scientific issues: the production and consumption of avocados in Spain. The aim is to find out how students use the evidence and what perspectives they integrate when making argued decisions, which will allow us to assess the didactic potential of the designed activity and contribute to the consolidation of the didactic dimension of eco-social education. The results show the students’ ability to use the evidence in a critical and reflective way, sometimes oriented toward the search for and proposal of solutions, and also their ability to address the problem using a systemic approach, integrating different perspectives, including political, economic, social, ecological, ethical, health, local, and global considerations. For this reason, the activity presented is considered suitable for promoting the didactics of eco-social education in teacher training.

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Is Consuming Avocados Equally Sustainable Worldwide? An Activity to Promote Eco-Social Education from Science Education

Guevara-Herrero

2024

Education Sciences

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Towards Transformative Environmental Education

Guevara-Herrero,

Esquivel-Martín,

Fernández-Huetos

et al. 2024

Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership

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The solution to the current ecosocial crisis involves changing the paradigm of environmental education. It should promote a realistic teaching approach that demands constant reflection and critical thinking. Therefore, this chapter presents a strategy for designing transformative activities aimed at early educational levels, along with a case as an example. To transform scientific knowledge into teachable knowledge, the process of didactic transposition is followed, including among its design principles the use of the case method for designing activities. The case proposed as an example aims to promote students' understanding of the health role of predators in wetlands (One Health approach) through the development of scientific practices. Through this, it is intended that they acquire a systemic vision of this environmental issue connected with global health. The results could assist teachers in making decisions during the design of transformative activities and in redefining initial teacher training while focusing on the professional dimension of their environmental competence.

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Environmental socio-scientific issues as contexts in developing scientific literacy in science education: A systematic literature review

Cited by 2 publications

References 47 publications

Is Consuming Avocados Equally Sustainable Worldwide? An Activity to Promote Eco-Social Education from Science Education

Is Consuming Avocados Equally Sustainable Worldwide? An Activity to Promote Eco-Social Education from Science Education

Towards Transformative Environmental Education

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