Topics and Trends in Current Science Education: 9th ESERA Conference Selected Contributions

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Introduction....Pages 3-18
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The Need for a Public Understanding of Sciences....Pages 21-35
 Questions Socialement Vives and Socio-scientific Issues: New Trends of Research to Meet the Training Needs of Postmodern Society....Pages 37-54
Teachers’ Beliefs, Classroom Practices and Professional Development Towards Socio-scientific Issues....Pages 55-69
Which Perspectives Are Referred in Students’ Arguments About a Socio-scientific Issue? The Case of Bears’ Reintroduction in the Pyrenees....Pages 71-84
Learning About the Role and Function of Science in Public Debate as an Essential Component of Scientific Literacy....Pages 85-100
Exploring Secondary Students’ Arguments in the Context of Socio-scientific Issues....Pages 101-116
Teachers’ Beliefs on Science-Technology-Society (STS) and Nature of Science (NOS): Strengths, Weaknesses, and Teaching Practice....Pages 117-135
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Professional Learning of Science Teachers....Pages 139-157
Nanoeducation: Zooming into Teacher Professional Development Programmes in Nanoscience and Technology....Pages 159-174
Education for Sustainable Development: An International Survey on Teachers’ Conceptions....Pages 175-191
Learning to Teach Science as Inquiry: Developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Effective Teacher Professional Development....Pages 193-211
Weaving Relationships in a Teaching Sequence Using ICT: A Case Study in Optics at Lower Secondary School....Pages 213-228
Inquiry-Based Mathematics and Science Education Across Europe: A Synopsis of Various Approaches and Their Potentials....Pages 229-242
Measuring Chemistry Teachers’ Content Knowledge: Is It Correlated to Pedagogical Content Knowledge?....Pages 243-254
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Boys in Physics Lessons: Focus on Masculinity in an Analysis of Learning Opportunities....Pages 257-272
Which Effective Competencies Do Students Use in PISA Assessment of Scientific Literacy?....Pages 273-289
Development of Understanding in Chemistry....Pages 291-306
Learning Affordances: Understanding Visitors’ Learning in Science Museum Environment....Pages 307-320
Modelling and Assessing Experimental Competencies in Physics....Pages 321-337
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Understanding Students’ Conceptions of Electromagnetic Induction: A Semiotic Analysis....Pages 339-350
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Analyzing Classroom Activities: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations....Pages 353-368
The Impact of a Context-Led Curriculum on Different Students’ Experiences of School Science....Pages 369-383
Students’ Experienced Coherence Between Chemistry and Biology in Context-Based Secondary Science Education....Pages 385-402
The Relationship Between Teaching and Learning of Chemical Bonding and Structures....Pages 403-417
Blending Physical and Virtual Manipulatives in Physics Laboratory Experimentation....Pages 419-433
Becoming a Health-Promoting School: Effects of a 3-Year Intervention on School Development and Pupils....Pages 435-452
Disagreement in “Ordinary” Teaching Interactions: A Study of Argumentation in a Science Classroom....Pages 453-467
Analysis of Teaching and Learning Practices in Physics and Chemistry Education: Theoretical and Methodological Issues....Pages 469-485
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Designing a Learning Progression for Teaching and Learning About Matter in Early School Years....Pages 489-503
‘Realistic-Fiction Storybooks’ as a Resource for Problematic Questioning of Living Being with Pupils in Primary School....Pages 505-517
Nature of Science as Portrayed in the Physics Official Curricula and Textbooks in Hong Kong and on the Mainland of the People’s Republic of China....Pages 519-534
On the Transfer of Teaching-Learning Materials from One Educational Setting to Another....Pages 535-552
CoReflect: Web-Based Inquiry Learning Environments on Socio-scientific Issues....Pages 553-566
Adapting Web-Based Inquiry Learning Environments from One Country to Another: The CoReflect Experience....Pages 567-582
Back Matter....Pages 583-601