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RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 75-94Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-011-9257-y
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Educational configurations; Education for sustainability; Socially acute questions; Socioscientific issues
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Education for Sustainability has become an institutional requirement in many countries. It takes many forms that can integrate the teaching of environmental Socioscientific Issues (SSIs). In this context, we present the French notion of Socially Acute Questions (SAQs). We develop a theoretical frame to analyse educational configurations applied to the teaching of SAQs within the perspective of sustainability. This frame is built with a reference to a matrix integrating attributes of knowledge (universal, plural, engaged or contextualised), teachers' epistemological postures (scientism, utilitarianism, skepticsm or relativism) and various didactic strategies (doctrinal, problematizing, critical or pragmatic). To illustrate this frame, three situations of teaching-learning are compared.
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