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Science Education: Educating the Citizens of the Future

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Science education has a role in developing thinking skills and approaches to reasoning and evidence on the part of students who will be citizens of the future. These skills include tolerance for, and the ability to function within, environments characterised by complexity and ambiguity. Science education can also help to develop a more global vision of citizenship. Many of the challenges facing citizens have a scientific dimension, and efforts to address these challenges have a long history in science education. This chapter outlines issues and approaches and some preliminary results, and suggests some future directions for teaching and research.

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    David Geelan

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  1. Department of Education, University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Ian Davies

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Li-Ching Ho

  3. Department of Education and Social Justice, School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Dina Kiwan

  4. Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Carla L. Peck

  5. Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Andrew Peterson

  6. Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Edda Sant

  7. Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Yusef Waghid

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Geelan, D. (2018). Science Education: Educating the Citizens of the Future. In: Davies, I., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59733-5_32

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