Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Reconceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society

摘要: There have been worldwide movements to reform science education around the aim of promoting scientific literacy in school children and the general citizenry over the past two decades. The basic premise of scientific literacy is that there are essential scientific understandings, skills, and dispositions that every citizen must acquire in order to fully participate in the society. This premise is based on a deficit model which can be questioned from current science learning theories, the current divide between the scientific community …