Science | Environment | Health: Towards A Renewed Pedagogy For Science Education (contemporary Trends And Issues In Science Education)

Health and the environment are important learning areas in science education and their significance is growing. Not only do they have high social relevance, but they are also close to students’ interests and needs. They provide many opportunities to unlock science with questions that are personally relevant to boys and girls and that inspire them to engage in science. This book contains a selection of papers from prominent professionals in science, health and environmental education, who reflect on science education, each from their specific point of view. The core idea is to present well-founded perspectives on how science education may benefit from challenges stemming from both health and environmental education. Specific reasons are discussed as to why these two areas are particularly legitimized to challenge science education, and their potential impact on a revision of science education is evaluated. A new pedagogy for science¦environment¦health that yields interesting and relevant science education for students and teachers, and addresses the grand challenges of this century: what an attractive and rewarding project! The book will motivate teachers, teacher educators and science education researchers to take part in this on-going project. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Introduction....Pages 1-4 Preparing Citizens for a Complex World: The Grand Challenge of Teaching Socio-scientific Issues in Science Education....Pages 7-29 Socio-scientific Views on Environment and Health as Challenges to Science Education....Pages 31-48 Scientific Literacy in Environmental and Health Education....Pages 49-67 The Concept of Health Literacy....Pages 69-84 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Science, Environment and Health Education: Towards a Reconceptualisation of Their Mutual Interdependences....Pages 87-101 Creating Spaces for Rethinking School Science: Perspectives from Subjective and Social–Relational Ways of Knowing....Pages 103-125 General and Environmental Health as the Context for Science Education....Pages 127-146 A Win-Win Situation for Health and Science Education: Seeing Through the Lens of a New Framework Model of Health Literacy....Pages 147-173 Revising Science Teaching: Responding to Challenges of Health and Environmental Education....Pages 175-189 Back Matter....Pages 191-197 Though health issues are recognized as part of the science curricula, health educational contexts are generally not included in science education. This book explores the issue and suggests ways that health and environmental education can be combined.