Wicked Problems in PreK-12 Science Education

Stories and Strategies for Confronting Complex Topics in the Science Classroom
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83325-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Teaching and Learning in Science Series

This resource offers science teachers and science teacher educators strategies for tackling 'wicked problems' in their classrooms. Contributors from across diverse PreK-12 educational contexts share how they confront and address these complex scientific or social problems. Chapters are organized into four sections: PreK-12 students, teacher candidates, in-service teachers, teacher educators. Within each, science educators discuss how they have dealt with both systemic and non-straightforward wicked problems, such as climate change, social justice, ecojustice/climate justice, white privilege, political attacks on education, economic disparity, and other socio-scientific issues. Chapters also include case studies that demonstrate how teachers broach wicked problems with their students. Ideal for science educators at all levels, this book can be a great supplement to any methods course covering science topics, or useful for professional development for in-service teachers who desire to learn more about how to attend to, maneuver and grapple with teaching controversial or complex science topics. The Editors and Contributors cultivate and encourage important conversation around complex scientific problems that will inspire educators to address and navigate the complexities of wicked problems in their teaching practices.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldman, Allan

Kreps Frisch, Jennifer

Alston, Daniel Mason

Schpakow, Michelle

Hagevik, Rita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Entscheidungstheorie, Sozialwahltheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: PreK-12 Students  1. Nature-Based Learning and Supportive Learning Environments: A Pathway to Climate Change Education and Social Justice 2. School STEAM Garden-Based Learning Empowering Students to BEE Environmental Ambassadors 3. Addressing Wicked Problems Using Multiple Models 4. Creating Environmental Impact Statements as a Tool to Improve Student Understanding of Complex Ecological and Environmental Issues 5. Building Perceptional Progression Among Adolescents Concerning Climate Impacted Coastal Resilience in Economically Divergent Communities Part 2: Inservice Teachers  6. Understanding the Impact of a Contentious Sociopolitical Landscape on Science Teachers’ Practice and Well-Being 7. “This Isn’t A Crime, This Is Science”: How Carceral Logics have Manifested In Science Education 8. Addressing Gender Inequity Through Sexual and Reproductive Health Education: An Indian Perspective 9. Teaching About the Wicked Problem of Global Climate Change in Secondary Science 10. Building District-Level Capacity in the Development and Implementation of NGSS-Aligned, Justice-Centered Curriculum Part 3: Teacher Candidates  11. “Yeah, that’s racist”: Reflections and Learnings from a Justice-Oriented Lesson Gone Wrong 12. Utilizing Model-Eliciting Wicked Problems in STEM Teacher Education: A Path from Learning to Serving 13. Cultural Contexts and Global Challenges: Integrating Science and Social Sciences in Omani Teacher Preparation Programs 14. We Make the Road by Walking: Supporting Science Teacher Candidates’ Moves Toward Justice-Oriented Teaching and Learning Part 4: Science Teacher Educators  15. Developing an Ecological Worldview for Teacher Candidates Through Authoring Children’s Science Stories 16. Be Like Fungi: Mycorrhizal Pedagogy 17. Addressing Power in the Collaborative Design Process while Building Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Energy Independence in the Arctic 18. Tackling Wicked Problems through Teacher-Researcher Collaboration and Codesign 19. Transdisciplinary Pedagogies in Pre-Service Teacher Preparation to Address Wicked Problems 20. Wicked Orientations in Teacher Preparation: The Complexity of Cultivating Anti-Racist Science Teachers

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Kreps Frisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.

Daniel Mason Alston is an Associate Professor in the Cato College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, and the director for the Charlotte Teaching Fellows Program.

Allan Feldman is Emeritus Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, USA.

Rita Hagevik is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Science Education in the Biology Department at UNC-Pembroke, USA.

Michelle Schpakow is the Science Education Lecturer for Monmouth University’s School of Education, USA.