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Peer reviewedRubba, Peter A. – Social Education, 1990
Discusses studies done on science/technology/society (STS) education and lessons that may be drawn for teachers. Maintains that issue investigation and action-based units focusing on locally relevant and student-relevant issues are clearly supported and encouraged by STS research. (DB)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Current Events, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedRubba, Peter A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1992
A learning cycle lesson consists of three phases: concept exploration, concept introduction, and concept application. Describes the application of the learning cycle model to the design of inservice and preservice teacher education curriculum. (MDH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedRubba, Peter A.; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
Discusses students' awareness of science/technology/society (STS) issues, the importance students assign to STS issues, and students' achievement in a genetics unit after infusing STS vignettes into class discussions. Recommendations are made on the use of STS vignettes by science teachers. (KR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Peer reviewedRubba, Peter A.; Wiesenmayer, Randall L.; Rye, James A.; Ditty, Tom – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1996
Describes a leadership institute in Science-Technology-Society (STS) education which was established to develop middle-school science teacher/leaders in STS education across rural areas of central Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. The program was comprised of professional-development activities and complementary research that used STS…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Futures (of Society)
Hungerford, Harold R., Ed.; Bluhm, William J., Ed.; Volk, Trudi L., Ed.; Ramsey, John M., Ed. – 1998
This book provides 29 readings that provide a detailed overview of those elements that might take environmental education from the intuitive to the valid, to a field where there truly is a defensible, substantive structure. Contents include: (1) "Tensions in Environmental Education: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" (Disinger, John F.); (2) "The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
