Teaching the interrelations of science and society: A set of role-plays on the social and cultural context of science Anna Koumara Athanasios Goutzamanis Hariton Polatoglou Fanny Seroglou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece

introducing science teachers to… …an image of the scientist as a member of society acting and interacting with the social and cultural parameters

scientists’ perspectives and motives… …come from their personal reframing of the cultural, political, philosophical, moral characteristics of their contemporary society …coupled with their individual role inside and outside the world of science

teaching science in its social and cultural context a science that… is more interesting is more appealing “makes sense”

interrelations of science and society cultural moral utilitariandemocratic

cultural

moral

utilitarian

democratic

in-service teacher training study texts about… the lives and works of scientists their social and cultural background …develop and perform role-plays

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