Moral Inquiry into Epistemic Insights in Science Education

Dr. Dana L. Zeidler is a Distinguished University Professor in Science Education and Department Chair at the University of South Florida, USA. He has developed an international research program centered on Socioscientific Issues taking a sociocultural approach to teaching and learning about how moral and ethical issues can be a means to foster the formation of epistemological sophistication and character in the pursuit of scientific literacy.

• PART ONE: Personal Perspectives. Chapter 1: Daring to be Wise about Serendipity: Sapere Aude.- Chapter 2: Arrested Development.- Chapter 3: Prison, Morality, and Nascent Socioscientific Issues.- Chapter 4: The Construction of the Framework for Socioscientific Issues.- Chapter 5: Moral Inquiry in the Practice of Socioscientific Issues.- Part II. Global Perspectives. Chapter 6. Is There a Place for Socioscientific Issues in Australian Secondary School Science?.- Chapter7. Brazil.- Chapter 8. Canada.- Chapter9. Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Ocean Literacy and Sustainability.- Chapter10. Denmark.- Chapter11. Greece.- Chapter12. Hong Kong Secondary Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Reasoning: Selecting Socioscientific (SSI) Issues for Designing Instructional Materials.- Chapter13. Lebanon.- Chapter 14. Approaches to SSI in Portugal: A Literature Review.- Chapter 15. SSI in formal education in Spain: a review of recent research and practice.- Chapter16. South Africa.- Chapter 17. South Korea.- Chapter 18. Science and Moral Inquiry as the Yin and Yang of SSI Education: Two Examples of SSI Research from Sweden.- Chapter 19. Taiwan.- Chapter 20. Turkey.- Chapter 21. United Kingdom.- Chapter 22. Next Generation Socioscientific Issues Education.