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Articles

The Seventh Current: A Case for the Environment in STSE Education

Pages 238-251 | Published online: 03 Sep 2014
 

Abstract

The author compares two frameworks, one proposed by Sauvé (2005) for environmental education (EE) and the other prepared by Pedretti and Nazir (2011) for Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) education. With the aim of investigating the utility of the two frameworks as tools for analysis of science teaching practice, the author applies the two frameworks to a series of lessons designed and delivered by two secondary science teachers. The results indicate that the STSE framework might be useful, but only if a seventh current is added to the six currents already existing in the framework.

Résumé

L’auteur compare deux cadres, l’un proposé par Sauvé (2005) pour l’éducation à l’environnement (EE), et l’autre par Pedretti et Nazir (2011) pour l’enseignement des sciences, technologies, société et environnement (STSE). Dans le but d’évaluer leur utilité en tant qu’instruments d’analyse des pratiques d’enseignement des sciences, l’auteur applique les deux cadres à une série de leçons conçues et appliquées par deux enseignants des sciences au secondaire. Les résultats indiquent que le cadre STSE pourrait s’avérer utile, mais seulement si un septième courant est ajouté aux six courants qui figurent actuellement dans ce cadre.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author thanks Dr. Christine Brew for her invaluable friendship and advice and the many hours on the porch spent knocking about these ideas.

Notes

Though the work of Pedretti and Nazir (2010) is described as a framework and the work of Sauvé is described as a typology, for expediency's sake, and for reasons that will become apparent, I will use the word framework when referring to either one.

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