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Student decision-making about a globally familiar socioscientific issue: the value of sharing and comparing views with international counterparts

Student decision-making about a globally familiar socioscientific issue: the value of sharing and comparing views with international counterparts
Student decision-making about a globally familiar socioscientific issue: the value of sharing and comparing views with international counterparts
This paper focuses on the views of 16–17-year-old science students from England, Germany, Hong Kong and Sweden on whale hunting, and their perceptions of the views of their international counterparts. The students were all provided with the same decision-making task, discussed the issue in small groups and then presented their views on video, which were shared with their counterparts. The findings show that the decision-making task served to deepen and modify students’ views across all nationalities, and the students generally valued and learned from the sharing of views with students of the same age from around the world. However, an important discovery was that the German students’ opinions often ran counter to those from the other 3 locations, and the paper cautions against making broad-sweeping generalisations about students’ views on socioscientific issues.
0950-0693
1855-1874
Grace, Marcus
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Lee, Yeung Chung
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Asshoff, Roman
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Wallin, Anita
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Grace, Marcus
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Lee, Yeung Chung
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Asshoff, Roman
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Grace, Marcus, Lee, Yeung Chung and Asshoff, Roman et al. (2015) Student decision-making about a globally familiar socioscientific issue: the value of sharing and comparing views with international counterparts. International Journal of Science Education, 37 (11), 1855-1874. (doi:10.1080/09500693.2015.1054000).

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This paper focuses on the views of 16–17-year-old science students from England, Germany, Hong Kong and Sweden on whale hunting, and their perceptions of the views of their international counterparts. The students were all provided with the same decision-making task, discussed the issue in small groups and then presented their views on video, which were shared with their counterparts. The findings show that the decision-making task served to deepen and modify students’ views across all nationalities, and the students generally valued and learned from the sharing of views with students of the same age from around the world. However, an important discovery was that the German students’ opinions often ran counter to those from the other 3 locations, and the paper cautions against making broad-sweeping generalisations about students’ views on socioscientific issues.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 16 June 2015
Organisations: Mathematics, Science & Health Education

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Local EPrints ID: 390605
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/390605
ISSN: 0950-0693
PURE UUID: 3e9853aa-d205-4527-8e6a-4de97c34f063
ORCID for Marcus Grace: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1949-1765

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Date deposited: 05 Apr 2016 12:06
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:44

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Author: Marcus Grace ORCID iD
Author: Yeung Chung Lee
Author: Roman Asshoff
Author: Anita Wallin

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