Pedagogy

= SSI & Teaching & Learning =

This page is for discussions relating to teaching, learning, assessment/evaluation relating to SSIs.

From Larry: I have been promoting education relating to STSE/SSI issues and actions based on social constructivist learning theories. A general instructional framework based on this is at: Constructivism-informed T&L. To encourage actions, we have developed the STEPWISE curriculum & instruction framework, which many teachers find works best re-organized in a timeline (e.g., for a unit of study). We have some publications about all of this and are working on more. My major claim at the moment is about student motivation for taking action to address STSE/SSI issues. It is apparent that students will be most motivated to take actions - and have ideas about directions for actions - if they have self-generated data informing them of aspects of the issue(s). They can self-generate data via primary (e.g., correlational studies) and secondary (e.g., internet searchers) research approaches. We explored relationships between influences from primary and secondary research ('inquiry') on students' actions in this: [|ASERA2010_Bencze-Sperling.pdf].