Anssi Salonen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine secondary school students' interest in choosing science studies and science-related careers and identify the underlying reasons for their lack of interest in science education and related careers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how career-related instruction implemented in secondary school chemistry education concerning water issues influenced students' career awareness and their interest towards science learning, and found that the students recognized the need for professionals and their responsibilities as well as the importance of water-related issues as global and local problems, but these issues were not personally important or valuable to students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationships between interest and self-concept in predicting science aspirations between ages 13 and 16 at lower-secondary school, considering gender differences, and found that while girls' interest was indicated as a sound predictor of aspirations in science, girls' selfconcept had no predictive influence on aspirations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a science education intervention using life-cycle analysis of consumer products is introduced, which aims to promote lower secondary school students' science career awareness and interest toward science studies.

TL;DR: In addition to the virtualization of material and social processes, the 21st century is also characterized by rematerialization of the virtual, using augmented, embedded, and ubiquitous technologies to augment all kinds of material objects with virtual dimensions as mentioned in this paper.