Rethinking science literacy: Enhancing communication and participation in school science through affirmational dialogue journal writing

A writing in science framework designed to enhance science literacy

Science education reforms in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, and the United States promote a constructivist pedagogy of science leading to a contemporary view of science literacy. The reform documents provide somewhat fuzzy descriptions of critical philosophical, epistemological and pedagogical dimensions and underlying assumptions and relationships. An adequate conception of the desir...

Rethinking Scientific Literacy: From Science Education as Propaedeutic to Participation in the Community

In this article, we propose a radical redefinition of scientific literacy. Based on our three-year multisite ethnographic research project, we propose scientific literacy to be characteristic of situations rather than an attribute of individuals. Framing our work in terms of activity theory, we provide descriptions of science as it is lived in the community. We also report on our research in a ...

Journal of Membrane Science and Research

Journal of Membrane Science and Research

Energy Literacy in the Science Textbooks of the First-High-School

The importance of energy in the sustainable development of societies and its role in the economic, social and political relations of today's world is indisputable. The availability and proper use of energy resources ensures the full development of any country. Because of the importance of this issue, the topic of energy literacy was introduced in science education in the recent years. Textbooks...