Should great lakes city build a new power plant? How youth navigate socioscientific issues

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 541-567

  Levine Rose, Shari ^a   Calabrese Barton, Angela ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental education; informal education; sociocultural issues; socioscientific issues

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; GREAT LAKES; GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; HYBRID POWER PLANTS; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; PROBLEM SPACE; PUBLIC DEBATE; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES; SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; NAVIGATION;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84860361894     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21017     Document Type: Article

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