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Marques, Luís; Vilches Peña, Amparo
Perfil; Gil Pérez, Daniel; Praia, Joâo Félix; Thompson, David
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This document is a capítuloDate2008
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The origin of our research has been the intuition that, in spite of some dramatic calls of United
Nations experts, the attention paid by science education research to the study of citizens’
awareness of the state of the world and of the danger of an irreversible degradation of life in
our Planet, has been very poor. Our work intends to clarify to what extent this essential issue
in the education of future decision-making citizens is adequately dealt with in science
education research. With this purpose, we have posed open questions to several hundreds of
science teachers in training and in service about “problems and challenges that humanity has
to face” and we have analysed the content of high school science textbooks (looking for any
reference to the state of the world and its future). Results obtained explain why we refer to the
state of the world as a missing dimension in science education. This dimension should be
urgently incorporated if we want to answer the United Nations call to contribute to the
Decade of Education for a Sustainable Future.
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The origin of our research has been the intuition that, in spite of some dramatic calls of United
Nations experts, the attention paid by science education research to the study of citizens’
awareness of the state of the world and of the danger of an irreversible degradation of life in
our Planet, has been very poor. Our work intends to clarify to what extent this essential issue
in the education of future decision-making citizens is adequately dealt with in science
education research. With this purpose, we have posed open questions to several hundreds of
science teachers in training and in service about “problems and challenges that humanity has
to face” and we have analysed the content of high school science textbooks (looking for any
reference to the state of the world and its future). Results obtained explain why we refer to the
state of the world as a missing dimension in science education. This dimension should be
urgently incorporated if we want to answer the United Nations call to contribute to the
Decade of Education for a Sustainable Future.
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MARQUES, L., VILCHES, A., GIL- PÉREZ, D., PRAIA, J. y THOMPSON, D. (2008). The Current Planetary Crisis: a Missing Dimension in Science Education, en Azeteiro, U.M., Gonçalves, F., Pereira, R., Pereira, M.J., Leal-Filho, W. and Morgado, F., Science and environmental education. Towards the integration of Science Education, Experimental Science Activities and Environmental Education. Pp. 25-47. ISBN: 978-3-631-55406-7; ISSN: 1434-3819. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. |
