Reframing science education discourses through cross-national dialogues

Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Professor of STEM Education, Director, EPI•STEM National Centre of STEM Education, School of Education, University of Limerick, Ireland

Sara Tolbert, Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education, Faculty of Education University of Canterbury, SENCER Diplomat, Aotearoa New Zealand

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SENCER Summer Institute, online, Aug 6 2023

STEM Education Discourses

Revisiting our SENCER Ideals

• SENCER connects science and civic engagement by teaching “through” complex, and unsolved public issues “to” basic science.
• SENCER invites learners to put scientific knowledge and methods to immediate use on matters of relevance to them.
• SENCER reveals both the power and the limits of science in addressing the great challenges of our time.
• SENCER helps all learners connect civic issues of local concern to national and global “grand challenges.”

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Select References

• Edling, S. & Mooney Simmie, G. (2020). Democracy and Teacher Education: Dilemmas, Challenges and Possibilities. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Democracy-and-Teacher-Education-Dilemmas-Challenges-and-Possibilities/Edling-Mooney-Simmie/p/book/9781138593251
• Short videos of key ideas in Democracy and Teacher Education (2020): https://www.routledge.com/go/exchanges-with-authors-silvia-edling-and-geraldine-mooney-simmie-democracy-and-teacher-education
• Wallace, M. F., Bazzul, J., Higgins, M., & Tolbert, S., Eds., (2022). Reimagining science education in the Anthropocene, Vol 1. Springer/Palgrave. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-79622-8
• Tolbert, S., Wallace, M., Higgins, M., & Bazzul, J. , Eds., (2023, forthcoming). Reimagining science education in the Anthropocene, Vol 2. Springer/Palgrave.