书目名称 | Looking to the Future | 编辑 | Derek Hodson | 视频video | | 概述 | Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | In advocating an action-oriented and issues-based curriculum, this book takes the position that a major, but shamefully neglected, goal of science and technology education is to equip students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to confront the complex and often ill-defined socioscientific issues they encounter in daily life as citizens in an increasingly technology-dominated world carefully, critically, confidently and responsibly. In outlining proposals for addressing socioscientific issues through a curriculum organized in terms of four increasingly sophisticated levels of consideration, the author adopts a highly critical and politicized stance towards the norms and values that underpin both scientific and technological development and contemporary scientific, engineering and medical practice, criticizes mainstream STS and STSE education for adopting a superficial, politically naïve and, hence, educationally ineffective approach to consideration of socioscientific issues, takes the view that environmental problems are social problems occasioned by the values that underpin the ways in which we choose to live, and urges teachersto encourage students to reach their ow | 出版日期 | Book 2011 | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-472-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6091-472-0 | copyright | SensePublishers 2011 |
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