Full Description
This edited volume, the second of a two-volume set, presents science curriculum exemplars based on existing and future curriculum models. Drawing upon complexity and systems theories, this book will provide a framework for science curriculum that tackles and transforms the interrelated and socio-ecological causes of our ecological crises. The result is a refreshing and hopeful look at K-12 science curriculum in light of our current global trajectory in the twenty-first century.
Chapter Future-oriented Science Education Building Sustainability Competences: An Approach to the European GreenComp Framework is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Designing for Collective Futures: The Engineering for Ecological and Social Justice Framework.- 3. Contemporary Science Research and Climate Change Education.- 4. Energy and Your Environment (EYE): Place-based Curriculum Unit to Empower Students' Energy Literacy and Conservation.- 5. Future-oriented Science Education Building Sustainability Competences: An Approach to the European GreenComp Framework.- 6. Outbreak Science: Implications for Teaching and Learning in STEM Classrooms.- 7. Developing Nature-Connectedness Among Students in Singapore.- 8. "Where is God during a natural disaster?" Potential implications of public discourses of religion for science curricula.- 9. The Metamorphosis of the Scientist. A Phenomenological Approach for a Transformative Science Education?
