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Almeida, Beatriz; Santos, Monique; Justi, Rosária – Science & Education, 2023
In the last decades, science literacy has been progressively emphasised as an aim of science education. However, the science education literature does not present a consensus about both the meaning of science literacy. By studying such literature, we identified some of these aspects that may also be relevant for promoting students' critical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy, Decision Making
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Maia, Poliana; Justi, Rosária; Santos, Monique – Science & Education, 2021
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and given the huge volume of information available for the general population (being part of them fake news), there is a clear need to foster people's understanding of the meaning of science, of how scientific knowledge is produced, communicated, and used. As one of the main aims of science education is the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Scientific Research, Communication Strategies
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Justi, Rosária; Mendonça, Paula Cristina Cardoso – Science & Education, 2016
As part of a teacher training project, 16 future chemistry teachers participated in a dramatisation activity (a mock trial of the Fritz Haber case), in which they discussed a controversy concerning an event from the history of science: the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Fritz Haber in 1918. Preparations for the role-play activity, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Science Teachers