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ERIC Number: EJ349815
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Adolescent Reasoning in Socio-Scientific Issues, Part I: Social Cognition.
Fleming, Reg
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v23 n8 p677-87 Nov 1986
Discusses the inclusion of socio-scientific issues in science education from the standpoint of social cognition. Describes a study in which adolescents who had successfully completed both high school chemistry and biology were interviewed. Data suggest that their dominant domains of reasoning were in the area of social cognition. (TW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Learning Theories, Metacognition, Moral Development, Science and Society, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Attitudes, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Social Attitudes, Social Cognition, Social Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Issues Approach; Science Education Research