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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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Analyzing students’ use of reasons in arguing socioscientific issues through the SEE-SEP model.
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Socioscientific issues (SSIs) are proved as good contexts to make learners achieve the goal of scientific literacy and to enhance skills of argumentation worldwide. Research has found that reasons from various resources are involved in students’ argumentation on SSIs and also shows that multi-perspective involvement of reasoning is important for the quality of argumentation. To study whether students could use reasons from multi-resources in arguing SSIs, we adopt a model termed SEE-SEP to analyze 208 Swedish upper secondary students’ written arguments on SSIs including global warming, GMO, nuclear power and consumption. The results disclosed that (1) social-science majors and females generated more numbers of reasons and also showed multi-disciplinary reasons; (2) the aspect of value was found used most in students’ argumentation without differences among study backgrounds and genders; (3) reasons from the subject area of science were presented most in the topic of nuclear power and GMO, also without differences among study backgrounds and gender; (4) reasons from the subject area of ethics/morality were generated less among the four SSIs, but relatively, females provided more than males; (5) personal experience were involved far less than the aspects of value and knowledge, especially in the topics of global warming, GMO and nuclear power, in which, the subject area of economy was also presented less. The implications to SSI research and teaching are discussed.
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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Enhancing science teachers’ professional knowledge on inquiry-based science teaching.
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Ingår i: II IOSTE Eurasian Regional Symposium & Brokerage Event Horizon 2020 – Science with and for Society.. - Istanbul : Bahcesehir University. - 9786053553915 ; , s. 30-30
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inquiry-based science education (IBSE) has been addressed in science education internationally during the past decades, and the new Swedish curriculum from 2011 also emphasize the need to develop students’ inquiry skills. However, to what extent school teachers in Sweden have developed their professional knowledge on IBSE has only been focused in a small number of studies in Sweden and it was found that in-service teachers were not well-informed about the ideas of IBSE (Lunde, Rundgren, & Chang Rundgren, 2015). Therefore, in the PROFILES project in Sweden, we could create time and space for in-service teachers to develop and reflect on IBSE. The purpose of this presentation is to share our experiences on the development of PROFILES with in-service science teachers (primary and lower secondary school levels) in Sweden during year 2012 to 2014. A model termed context-inquiry-assessment (CIA) continuously professional development (CPD) is introduced in the presentation together with suggestions on different teacher professional development approaches (e.g. design-based, learning study and action research) (Chang Rundgren, in press) as well as the detailed professional reflection on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). References Lunde, T., Rundgren, C-J, Chang Rundgren, S. N. (2015) När läroplan och tradition möts – hur högstadielärare bemöter yttre förväntningar på undersökande arbete i naturämnesundervisningen. NorDiNa (Nordic Studies in Science Education) 11(1) 88-101.Lunde, T. (2014). När läroplan och tradition möts. Om lärarfortbildning och undersökande aktiviteters syfte inom den laborativa NO-undervisningen i grundskolans senare del. Licentiate Thesis. Karlstad University Studies 2014:42. ISBN 978-91-7063-577-9
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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Experience-Based Teaching and Learning of Socioscientific Issues
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the emergence of socioscientific issues (SSIs) like GMO, global warming and the use of nuclear power plants, SSI-research has become one of the main trends in science education. During the past decade, researchers indicate that SSIs are suitable contexts to promote students’ argumentation skills, to achieve the goal of scientific literacy and even to enhance students’ learning interests toward sciences. Evidently, SSI-research shows the importance of its continuation. To date, most of the research focuses on how students’ argue in different SSI topics, but this paper highlights the importance of shifting the main focus from individual student’s argumentation on SSIs to teaching contexts. The SEE-SEP model (with six subject areas and three aspects of value, knowledge and personal experiences) was developed to analyze the resources of students’ supporting reasons in their argumentation. From former research using the SEE-SEP model, it was disclosed that the value aspect dominated students’ argumentation on different SSIs. We argue that, if value-laden argumentation is an essential part of SSI-teaching, teachers need to work on engaging students with various forms of experiences (from low to high authenticity) to develop students’ values towards SSIs. Hence, an experience-based SSI teaching and learning model is suggested in the paper to develop students’ different values on SSI topics, which can contribute to their interests in SSIs as well as competency as citizens of our future society.
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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Making Chemistry Education Relevant through Mass Media
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Ingår i: Relevant Chemistry Education. - Rotterdam : Sense Publishers. - 9789463001748 - 9789463001731 - 9789463001755 ; , s. 205-218
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In today’s society, mass media plays an important role in our life. In addition toschool education, people receive scientific knowledge from mass media to a greatextent. Within chemistry, the information, for example, concerning food chemistry,crime investigation, environmental toxins and local mining issues, pervades massmedia. Today, all the above-mentioned issues are termed socio-scientific issues(SSI), which are seen as suitable contexts to promote scientific literacy and citizeneducation in the global age. In addition to the importance of noticing the emergingSSI in mass media, both of SSI and media have been found useful in enhancingstudents’ learning in sciences, especially at the moment of facing the presentphenomenon concerning students’ low interest in science revealed internationally,in particular among developed countries (e.g. Sweden). Therefore, it is a majortask now for us, as science educators, to put effort on motivating students’ interestin science, and we believe the combination of SSI and mass media can enhancestudents’ interest through making science relevant. In this chapter, the importanceof SSI-based teaching linking to the meaning of relevance is introduced as a visionthat science teachers need to be aware of and develop further. Further, we arguewhy mass media can contribute to making chemistry education relevant forstudents based on research evidence. Two examples of SSI-teaching approaches,based on local SSI topics discussed in mass media in Taiwan and Sweden, arepresented to benefit teaching practices. The implication to teacher education isalso discussed.
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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Pre-service teachers’ awareness on the teaching strategies involving socioscientific issues, inquiry-based science education to enhance socioscientific inquiry-based learning.
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Ingår i: ERIDOB 2016. ; , s. 73-73
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Together with Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE), teaching and learning about SocioScientifis Issues (SSI) and the related argumentation skill (termed informal ar-gumentation or SSI-argumentation) are emerging and hot research topics in science education internationally during the past decades. Embedding the four important concepts regarding Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Citizenship Educa-tion (CE), SSI and IBSE for the education in modern society, the teaching strategy of SocioScientific Inquiry-Based Learning (SSIBL) is generated and recognized by the European Commission to promote in teacher education and apply in school educa-tion. The presentation is based on an EU FP7 project, PARRISE (No. 612438), aiming to develop TPD courses to enhance pre- and in-service teachers’ competence on teaching students’ SSIBL in formal and informal education from primary to upper secondary education levels. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate a design of a SSIBL TPD course (with a focus of RRI, SSI, IBSE and CE concepts) for a group of pre-service teachers at primary education level. Further, the pre-service teachers’ awareness on teaching strategies involving SSI, IBSE to enhance SSIBL is investigated with the main research questions including: 1. What are the pre-service teachers’ awareness of SSI and IBSE teaching? 2. What are the re-service teachers’ awareness of SSI, IBSE and SSIBL teaching after the SSIBL TPD course? 3. What are pre-service teachers’ general feedback on the SSIBL TPD course? Through the pre- and post-test with quantitative Likert-Scale questionnaire survey, the results showed that the 26 pre-service teachers’ confidence on SSI, IBSE and SSIBL teaching strategies were increased and need for further education was decre-ased, both with significantly differences (p < 0.05) after the SSIBL TPD course. Also, the general feedback on the SSIBL course was positive as well.
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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Science in media: An important aspect to be included to enhance civic scientific literacy
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How to create a meaningful science education platform for all citizens, and to achieve the goal of scientific literacy, has been a long-standing debate internationally. To date, ‘science for all’ and ‘science for future scientists’ describe science curricula for two different target groups, students who expect to pursue further studies and students who will not continue to study science, of which the latter constitute the majority in the society. The way science education is organized with those two target groups in mind can be connected to the two different ‘visions’ of science education. According to Douglas Roberts, in science education related to ‘vision one,’ the academic subject gives the structure and content of school science teaching. A ‘vision two’ related science teaching generally structures the school science around societal issues in which science knowledge plays an important role. However, the questions of how to create a meaningful ‘science education for all’ linking to society must be addressed. After school, media become one of the main sources for the majority of citizens to access science information. Hence, the importance of conducting research on ‘science in media,’ which can give input to science education in school, has been noticed. In this paper, we focus on discussing civic scientific literacy (related to ‘science for all’ or ‘vision two’) through the aspect of media. Based on our three-year (2009-2011) experiences and research outcomes from SLiM (Scientific Literacy in Media) project in Taiwan (1034 participants) and Sweden (117 participants), the following questions are addressed and reflected in this paper. Implications for science education and research are also discussed.Why is ‘science in media’ important to be included in civic scientific literacy?What ‘science’ is included in media?How can we embed ‘science in media’ in science education?Should we have a ‘uniform’ scientific literacy globally?
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- Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu, 1975-, et al.
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SEE-SEP : From a separate to a holistic view on socio-scientific issues
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Ingår i: Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching. - 1609-4913. ; 11:1, s. Article 2-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The trend of socioscientific issues (SSIs) has been emergent in the science- and technology-dominated society of today. Accordingly, during the past 20 years, students’ skills of argumentation and informal reasoning about SSIs have achieved greater emphasis and profile in school education. Based upon the importance of SSIs, more and more researchers have investigated how students reason and make arguments about SSIs, and also explored the dimensions influencing students’ arguments and also involved in the various SSIs. This article has a threefold purpose. Firstly, we want to address the different roles of SSIs in science education nowadays, and secondly, after reviewing the divergent dimensions involved in SSIs from previous literature, we want to provide a holistic view to represent the essence of SSIs via the SEE-SEP model (connecting six subject areas of Sociology/culture, Environment, Economy, Science, Ethics/morality and Policy with three aspects of value, personal experience and knowledge) developed here. Thirdly, to support the SEE-SEP model, examples extracted from former studies are presented. The implications for research and for school science education are discussed.
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