Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility): A Guide for Legislation and School Policy in Science Education (Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education Book 41)

Today’s youth will face global environmental changes, as well as complex personal and social challenges. To address these issues this collection of essays provides vital insights on how science education can be designed to better engage students and help them solve important problems in the world around them. __Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility)__ includes theories, research, and practices for envisioning how science and environmental education can promote personal, social, and civic responsibility. It brings together inspiring stories, creative practices, and theoretical work to make the case that science education can be reformed so that students learn to meaningfully apply the concepts they learn in science classes across America and grow into civically engaged citizens. The book calls for a curriculum that equips students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to confront the complex and often ill-defined socioscientific issues of daily life. The authors are all experienced educators and top experts in the fields of science and environmental education, ecology, experiential education, educational philosophy, policy and history. They examine what has to happen in the domains of teacher preparation and public education to effect a transition of the youth of America. This exciting, informative, sophisticated and sometimes provocative book will stimulate much debate about the future direction of science education in America, and the rest of the world. It is ideal reading for all school superintendents, deans, faculty, and policymakers looking for a way to implement a curriculum that helps builds students into responsible and engaged citizens. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Reclaiming Community As We Rethink Assessment....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Introducing Generation R....Pages 11-24 Civic Responsibility and Science Education....Pages 25-34 Critical Civic Literacy and the Limits of Consumer-Based Citizenship....Pages 35-51 Fostering Independence: Assessing Student Development....Pages 53-61 Assessing Interdependent Responsibility....Pages 63-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Thinking (Scientifically) Responsibly: The Cultivation of Character in a Global Science Education Community....Pages 83-99 Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning: Linking Progressive Aims of Science Education to the Realities of Modern Education....Pages 101-113 Assessment Across Boundaries: How High-Quality Student Work Demonstrates Achievement, Shapes Practice, and Improves Communities....Pages 115-131 The View from the Top of the Plateau....Pages 133-148 Benefits of Elementary Environmental Education....Pages 149-165 Teaching Earth Smarts: Equipping the Next Generation with the Capacity to Adapt....Pages 167-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Digital Technologies and Assessment in the Twenty-First-Century Schooling....Pages 185-200 New Interoperable Web Tools to Facilitate Decision-Making to Support Community Sustainability....Pages 201-214 Is There an App for That? Connecting Local Knowledge with Scientific Literacy....Pages 215-225 Developing Collective Decision-Making Through Future Learning Environments....Pages 227-242 GameWerks Camp: Using Gaming to Foster Learning by Design....Pages 243-256 The Power of the Globe and Geospatial Technologies to Empower Teachers and Students in the Digital Age....Pages 257-263 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 The Importance of Cultural Studies for Education: For Teachers and Policymakers in America....Pages 267-277 Culture, Environment, and Education in the Anthropocene....Pages 279-292 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 Science Education in and for Turbulent Times....Pages 293-305 A View Through Another Window: Free-Choice Science Learning and Generation R....Pages 307-319 Educating for Science Literacy, Citizenship, and Sustainability: Learning from Native Hawaiian Perspectives....Pages 321-331 From Local Observations to Global Relationships....Pages 333-346 Our Shared Forests: Ecuador and the Southeastern United States’ Migratory-Bird Partnership....Pages 347-359 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Frankenstein , Monsters, and Science Education: The Need for Broad-Based Educational Policy....Pages 363-375 School Policy in Science Education....Pages 377-391 Some Challenges in Planning Educational Programs for Generation R....Pages 393-408 Re-imaging the Goals of Science Education: What Role Should Assessment Play?....Pages 409-417 Back Matter....Pages 419-449 This collection of essays provides insights on how science education can be designed to better engage students and help them solve important problems in the world around them. The book includes theories, research, and practices for envisioning how science and environmental education can promote personal, social, and civic responsibility. The book calls for a curriculum that equips students with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to confront the complex and often ill-defined socioscientific issues of daily life.-- From publisher's description This book includes theories, research, and practices for envisioning how science and environmental education can contribute to nuanced indicators of school achievement, with the prospect of comparing these metrics worldwide.