Speakers
Walter SciarrettaDr
Walter Sciarretta
(Department of Physics "E. Pancini")
Description
In this paper, we investigate the relationships between students’ reasoning about socio-scientific issues and their knowledge about scientific inquiry and modeling. To this aim, we developed a teaching-learning sequence for high school students (10th grade) using the controversial scenario of the closing of a steel manufacture plant. The results show that students’ knowledge of models and the scientific inquiry does not seem adequate to achieve a sufficient level of competence in socio-scientific reasoning. Implication for teaching practice about physics-based socio-scientific issues will be briefly discussed.
Author
Dr
Walter Sciarretta
(Department of Physics "E. Pancini")
Co-author
Italo Testa
(University Federico II Naples)
