Perhaps the most important role of a teacher is to inspire students to value their intellectual and emotional abilities and to understand how they can use science to "improve the lives of those they have touched and the differences they have made" (quote from Dr....
Yes, the U.S. Congress did pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), but within Congress---in the House---there was clear evidence of "scientific illiteracy." And no, it was not the kind of thinking that we as science teachers advocate. It...
Within the science education community there has been a movement to explore the relationships among science, technology and society (STS), and this movement has a long history. In fact, its history parallels the more conventional or traditional view of science...
On Wednesday (Today) we celebrate Earthday, founded on April 22, 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson, and around the world it is a day that focuses on educating all of us for the environment with activities, celebrations, conferences, and programs. You can visit the...
Education about, in, and for the environment represent three different paradigms useful in helping us view environmental education and environmental science programs and activities. Based on research by Rachel Michel (1996), these three paradigms can briefly be...
I could have titled this "Is science teaching political?: A Humanistic Question." In an article (Scientific literacy: A Freirean perspective as a radical view of humanistic science education) recently published in Science Education, Wildson L.P. dos Santos, of the...
