Science Teacher Education for Responsible Citizenship

This edited book aims to provide a global perspective on socioscientific issues (SSI), responsible citizenship and the relevance of science, with an emphasis on science teacher education. The volume, with more than twenty-five contributors from Africa, North and South America, Asia, Australasia and Europe, focuses on examples from in- and pre-service teacher training. The contributors expand on issues related to teachers' beliefs about teaching SSI, teachers' challenges when designing and implementing SSI-related activities, the role of professional development, both in pre- and in-service teacher training, in promoting SSI, the role of the nature of science when teaching SSI, promoting scientific practices through SSI in pre-service teaching, and the role of indigenous knowledge in SSI teaching. Finally, the book discusses new perspectives for addressing SSI in teacher education through the lens of relevance and responsible citizenship.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Socio-scientific issues as promoting responsible citizenship and the relevance of science (Maria Evagorou and Justin Dillon). - Chapter 2. Teachers and Socioscientific Issues An Overview of Recent Empirical Research (Jan Alexis Nielsen). - Chapter 3. Pre-service secondary science teachers' beliefs about teaching socio-scientific issues (Jessica S. C. Leung, Ka Lok Wong, and Kennedy K. H. Chan). - Chapter 4. Socio-scientific inquiry-based learning: possibilities and challenges for teacher education (Ruth Amos, Marie-Christine Knippels and Ralph Levinson). - Chapter 5. Critical and Active Public Engagement in Addressing Socioscientific Problems Through Science Teacher Education (Larry Bencze, Sarah El Halwany and Majd Zouda). - Chapter 6. Supporting Teachers in the Design and Enactment of Socio-Scientific Issue Based Teaching in the USA (Patricia J. Friedrichsen, Troy D. Sadler and Laura Zangori). - Chapter 7. Gamification of SSI s as a Science Pedagogy: Toward aCritical Rationality in Teaching Science (James P. Davis and Alberto Bellocchi). - Chapter 8. Science teachers as proponents of socio-scientific inquiry-based learning: From professional development to classroom enactment (Rachel Cohen, Eran Zafrani and Anat Yarden). - Chapter 9. Getting ready to work with socio-scientific issues in the classroom: a study with Argentine teachers (Melina Furman, Inés Taylor, Mariana Luzuriaga and María Eugenia Podestá). - Chapter 10. Introducing SSI in primary pre-service teacher education: scientific practices to learn the `big ideas of science (Anna Garrido Espeja and Digna Couso). - Chapter 11. Re-thinking the Integration of Socioscientific Issues in Teacher Education (Ronicka Mudaly). - Chapter 12. New Perspectives for Addressing Socioscientific Issues in Teacher Education (Jan Alexis Nielsen, Maria Evagorou and Justin Dillon).