Improving the ability of young people to construct arguments about controversial science
topics is a desired outcome of science education. The purpose of this research was to …

This study aimed to investigate the evolution of students' written argumentation on
socioscientific issues (SSIs) during a sequence combining two teaching strategies: debate …

Background: Many international science curriculum documents mandate that students
should be able to participate in argument, debate and decision-making about contemporary …

This study seeks to address critical gaps in climate change education research with regard
to (1) emotions triggered in teenage students learning about climate change,(2) the students' …

Scientific literacy is approached on the premise that language is key to understand the
nature of both learning and participation, in scientists' practices as well as in liberal …

Within the increasing body of research that examines students' reasoning on socioscientific
issues, we consider in particular student reasoning concerning acute, open‐ended …

Argumentation studies in science education are relatively young. It can be said that
classroom-based research in scientific argumentation began in the 1990s. The first batch of …

In recent years, there has been growing interest in exploring argumentation about socio-
scientific issues (SSI) in the classroom to improve students' scientific literacy. Thus, this …

The main goal of this study was to examine the Environmental Workshop unit taught to
Environmental Sciences majors in the high schools in Israel and learn if, and in what ways …

This paper presents an analysis of the socio-scientific dimensions which 46 11th graders,
enrolled in the subject scientific culture, consider to justify their COVID-19 vaccination …