Science Teaching Journal Club

I just ran across the Science Teaching Journal Club.  This is so great I had to blog it so I remember.  They have online discussions of specific journal articles about science education.  They discuss and debate all types of topics including curriculum development, studies of what impacts learning, assessment, etc.

On May 22nd they discussed,

Osborne J, Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion for the Twenty-First Cen­tury Eura­sia Jour­nal of Math­e­mat­ics, Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy Edu­ca­tion, 2007, 3(3), 173–184 (pdf link)

Abstract: This paper argues that the dom­i­nant form of sci­ence edu­ca­tion that is com­mon across the world rests on a set of val­ues that have no merit.  More­over, such prac­tice has a neg­a­tive impact on stu­dents’ atti­tudes to sci­ence.  It makes the case that the pri­mary goal of any sci­ence edu­ca­tion should be to develop sci­en­tific lit­er­acy and explores what that might con­sist of and why such an edu­ca­tion is nec­es­sary in con­tem­po­rary soci­ety.  It con­cludes by exam­in­ing some of the chal­lenges that such a change might require.

This is a really amazing group which I need to follow more.