Cross-cultural epistemological orientations to socioscientific issues

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 251-283

  Zeidler, Dana L ^a   Herman, Benjamin C ^a   Ruzek, Mitch ^a   Linder, Anne ^b   Lin, Shu Sheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cross cultural research; epistemology; ethics; scientific literacy; sociocultural; socioscientific issues; socioscientific reasoning

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH; EPISTEMOLOGY; ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERACY; SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES; SOCIOCULTURAL; SOCIOSCIENTIFIC;

STUDENTS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84873716324     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21077     Document Type: Article

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