COVID-19: A Context to Promote Critical Thinking and Argumentation in Secondary and University Students

Blanca Puig, Maria Evagorou

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    Abstract

    ScienceScienceeducationEducation faces urgent challenges related to the increase of “fake newsNews, fake” on socio-scientific issues (SSI)Issue, socio-scientific that affect citizens’ livesLife. This situation affects teaching and learning and critical decisionsDecision on healthHealth issues. During the COVID-19COVID-19pandemicPandemic, citizens worldwide were called for actionsAction and decisionsDecision to stop the spread of the diseaseDisease. People were confronted with a rise of disinformation regarding potential ways to prevent and recover from COVID-19COVID-19. EducatorsEducator tried to find ways to support their studentsStudent to understand issues related to COVID-19 and apply their critical thinkingThinking, critical to understand SSI. The purpose of this chapter is to describe two case studies of educatorsEducator as they tried to engage their studentsStudentin COVID-19COVID-19 as an SSI during the lockdown. Teaching scienceScience in the pandemicPandemic context. (Made by Santi Jiménez).

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIntegrated Science
    PublisherSpringer Nature
    Pages219-236
    Number of pages18
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2023

    Publication series

    NameIntegrated Science
    Volume12
    ISSN (Print)2662-9461
    ISSN (Electronic)2662-947X

    Keywords

    • Active citizenship
    • COVID-19
    • Critical thinking
    • Fake news
    • Post-truth era
    • Science education
    • Socio-scientific issues

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