1. Debates in science education
Justin Dillon (University College London, UK) & Mike Watts (Brunel University London, UK)
Section 1. Debates about the nature and purpose of science education in contemporary society
2. The STEM, STEAM, STEAME debate: what does each term mean and what theoretical frameworks underpin their development?
Laura Colucci-Gray (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
3. To be debated: teachers should mobilize science students to help replace capitalism
Larry Bencze (OISE, Toronto, Canada)
4. Debates, intimacies, affects and agencies: science education in the ‘hard’ climate change era
Steve Alsop (York University, Toronto, Canada)
5. Climate change education
Justin Dillon (University College London, UK)
6. Science education for citizenship: contributions from knowledge of and about science in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Rosária Justi (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Poliana Maia (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal, Brazil) & Monique Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
7. Science and anti-science
Mike Watts (Brunel University London)
Section 2. Debates about the relationship between science and science pedagogy
8. Challenges in teaching using inquiry-based science
Robyn Gillies (University of Queensland, Australia)
9. Science as practice?
Jonathan Osborne (Stanford University, USA)
10. Learning and assessment
Erin Furtak (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
11. Science pedagogies from an international and comparative perspective
Ann Childs (University of Oxford, UK)
Section 3. Debates about whole-school issues which have a science dimension
12. Inclusion and equity in science education
Saima Salehjee (University of Strathclyde, UK)
13. Faith, science and classrooms
Michael Reiss (University College London, UK)
14. Sensitive issues in science: the case of relationships and sex education
Jenny Byrne (University of Southampton, UK)
15. Transition from primary to secondary
Sarah Earle (Bath Spa University, UK)
16. Creativity in school science
Justin Dillon (University College London, UK) & Lindsay Hetherington (University of Exeter, UK)
17. Science and mathematics - the mathematical demands of science
Vicky Wong (Wallingford School Academy, UK)
Biography
Justin Dillon is Professor of Science and Environmental Education at UCL. He was President of the European Science Education Research Association from 2007-11 and is currently President of the UK National Association for Environmental Education.
Mike Watts is Professor of Education at Brunel University London. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2005, is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is a council member of the National Conference of University Professors.
