Browsing by Author "Saunders, Kathryn J."

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Developing students’ futures thinking in science education

Jones, Alister; Buntting, Catherine Michelle; Hipkins, Rosemary; McKim, Anne M.; Conner, Lindsey; Saunders, Kathryn J. (Springer, 2012)

Futures thinking involves a structured exploration into how society and its physical and cultural environment could be shaped in the future. In science education, an exploration of socio-scientific issues offers significant ...
A pedagogical model for ethical inquiry into socioscientific issues in science

Saunders, Kathryn J.; Rennie, Léonie J. (Springer, 2013)

Internationally there is concern that many science teachers do not address socioscientific issues (SSI) in their classrooms, particularly those that are controversial. However with increasingly complex, science-based ...
Teaching and learning about controversial science issues

Saunders, Kathryn J. (New Zealand Association of Science Educators, 2010)

The overarching Nature of Science (NoS) strand in our revised science curriculum presents teachers of science with a number of challenges. One of them is the ‘Participating and Contributing’ achievement aim with its focus ...

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An Investigation into Secondary Science Teachers' Use of Research to Inform Their Science Teaching

van der Merwe, Suskia (University of Waikato, 2012)

The perceived irrelevance and lack of accessibility of academic research for science teachers has long been recognised as a significant problem in much educational literature. While interventions have been suggested to ...

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