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Education for scientific literacy: A conceptual frame of reference and some applications
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This article is published in Science Education.The article was published on 1974-07-01. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scientific literacy & Scientific enterprise.read more
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Scientific literacy: A conceptual overview
TL;DR: A review of the published literature in English on the concept of scientific literacy can be found in this paper, where the net is cast wider than just the professional science education com- munity and the diverse works on scientific literacy are brought together in an interpretative synthesis of this literature.
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The importance of involving high-school chemistry teachers in the process of defining the operational meaning of 'chemical literacy'
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a study in which teachers, as part of their professional development, were involved in defining the term "chemical literacy", and suggested educational experiences that are necessary in order to attain it.
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Science-Technology-Society (STS): a new paradigm in Science Education
TL;DR: In the past two decades of goals for science education in schools have induced new orientations in science education worldwide as mentioned in this paper, and one of the emerging complementary approaches was the science-...
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Theorizing scientific literacy in the wild
TL;DR: A review of the literature on scientific literacy in the wild can be found in this paper, where sociocultural and cultural-historical activity theoretic models of knowing account for scientific literacy better than other theories.
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Referents to scientific literacy
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The goals of science education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the goals of science education from a historical perspective and relate these to the present need for developing scientific literacy, and discuss the need to develop scientific literacy.