Science education in recent years has increasingly emphasized the connections between
knowledge and matters of social importance. Socioscientific issues (SSIs)—complex, often …

Globally climate change (CC) is scarcely addressed in school curricula, and school
graduates are mostly uneducated about climate change. The purpose of this paper is to …

Learning science in the context of socio-scientific issues (SSI) can promote scientific literacy
that links science to everyday life and society. In this position paper, we argue that …

Engagement is one of the hottest research topics in the field of educational psychology.
Research shows that multifarious benefits occur when students are engaged in their own …

This article presents a framework and methodology for designing learning goals targeted at
what students need to know and be able to do in order to attain high levels of literacy and …

Recent research and policy documents call for engaging students and teachers in scientific
practices such that the goal of science education shifts from students knowing scientific and …

The purpose of this article is to delineate the role of epistemic emotions in personal
epistemology and self-regulated learning (SRL). We first review important tenets of personal …

There is increasing consensus among psycho-educational scholars about argumentation as
a means to improve student knowledge and understanding of subject matter. In this article …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

Science is of critical importance to daily life in a knowledge society and has a significant
influence on many everyday decisions. As scientific problems increase in their number and …