E-grāmata: Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy

Offering new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy, this text takes a pragmatic and inclusive perspective on curriculum reform and learning and presents a future vision for science education research and practice.

"This book is a challenging and critical exploration of what it might mean to be scientifically literate and outlines the consequences for the science curricula of schools and colleges." Edger Jonkins, Leeds University (Professor Emeritus)

"... provides new and unique perspectivs for the field of science education. The authors present their best, contemporary thinking on fundamental themes. A major strength is their insightful philosophical, political, and pedagogical analysis and synthesis." Roger W. Bybee, Executive Director (Emeritus), BSCS

Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy, particularly around the tension between theoretical and proactical issues related to teaching and learning science. Uniquely drawing toghether and examining a rich, diverse set of approaches and policy and pracitce exemplars, the book takes a pragmatic and inclusive perspective on curriculum reform and learning, and presents a future vision for science education research and practice by articulating a more expansive notion of scientific literacy.