A framework to identify opportunities to address socioscientific issues in the elementary school curricula: A case study from England, Italy, and Portugal.

ABSTRACT: Scientific literacy is crucial to address important and complex societal problems, both current and future. Teaching using a socioscientific issues (SSI) approach is a potential strategy to develop students' scientific literacy, although teachers have reported concerns about its implementation, such as the inability to add additional distinct requirements to already demanding curricula. To facilitate this task, we describe the development of a valid and reliable instrument for curricula analysis, called "Framework for Identifying Opportunities to implement an SSI approach in science school curricula" (FIOSSI), and use it to identify opportunities to implement the SSI approach in the elementary school science curriculum of three European countries (England, Italy and Portugal). The framewor

SUBMITTER: Pessoa P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11957555 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature