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(CIVIS) -  Ευαγγελία Μαυρικάκη & Αποστολία Γαλάνη

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SocioScientific Issues in Biology and Geography (course for ERASMUS STUDENTS)

The continuous developments in the field of science and technology directly affect society and the way the latter deals with science. The terminology socio-scientific issues (SSI) that appeared (arisen) within the science education community states that many of the issues that science deals with, are not amenable to obvious and unique solutions but are issues that are amenable to alternative proposals for resolution depending on the perspective. For this reason, they are considered to be an ideal framework for the development of informal reasoning and argumentation in order to support a variety of opinions. 

In this  lesson, topics such as the Climate change crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic are the main topics to be analyzed. Various biological, geographical, societal, economical and other factors that affect or are affected by these issues will be identified. Students will be trained to identify appropriate and reliable data sources, work in groups to analyze these data and provide arguments to support decisions on issues that arise and are relevant to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Learning outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able 

• to provide examples of SSIs
• to recognize the multifaceted nature of the SocioScientific Issues (SSIs)

• to analyze SSIs and provide evidence based solutions
• to provide high level arguments
• identify reliable data sources.

They will also acquire the skills to use SSIs to promote 

• their students’ argumentation skills and 
• their students’ scientific literacy.
• sustainability.

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Τρίτη 18 Οκτωβρίου 2022