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- Title
A Response to the National Academies' 2021 Call to Action.
- Authors
Zucker, Andrew A.; Noyce, Pendred
- Abstract
The 2021 publication of Call to Action: Building Opportunity for the Future by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine offers an opportunity to consider re-balancing K-12 science education in the United States. Besides a strong and detailed appeal to provide a more equitable education, the document calls for science education to focus more purposefully on developing an "informed citizenry that makes fact-based decisions in everyday life." An approach to science education that reaches beyond scientific theories, facts and methods to consider how science interacts with everyday and civic life, including personal, economic, and ethical concerns, has been called a Vision II approach. Benefits of such an approach are likely to include greater student engagement, practice in constructive group discourse, exercise of critical thinking skills, and strengthening of civic skills needed in a democracy. We suggest pertinent resources and outline the relatively modest changes in policy, curriculum and instruction required at the national, state, district and classroom level to create a more effective approach to teaching science for citizenship.
- Subjects
EFFECTIVE teaching; ACADEMIC achievement; ACADEMIC rigor (Education); COURSE evaluation (Education); EDUCATIONAL objectives
- Publication
Science Educator, 2022, Vol 28, Issue 2, p55
- ISSN
1094-3277
- Publication type
Article