[ISTATALK-L] social / ethical / moral issues in science classrooms

[Hyunju Lee <hlee25@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear all science teachers

I desperately need your help.
My name is Hyunju Lee, a doctoral student studying science 
education at UIUC. In fact, I am sorry that this is third 
reminder to recruit teachers for my dissertation. I 
advertised this through ISTA and NSTA, and other 
connections, but not many teachers responded to me. 

I am doing  case studies of a small number (may be four) 
secondary science teachers who out of their own initiative 
are addressing social/moral/ethical issues regarding science 
and technology development in their classes. Such issues 
include human cloning, animal experimentation and testing, 
environmental issues, GMO, energy issues, nuclear power 
plants, or community related issues stemming from over-
developments, and so on. 

This study would involve in-depth interviews with the 
teacher regarding his/her philosophy, what motivated him/her 
to do socio-scientific issues, how s/he got into doing this, 
etc., and some audio-taping (and video-taping if possible) 
of classroom work. The emphasis would be on the the 
interviews.

Are you planning to address some of the issues during the 
rest of this semester? Or do you know somebody who are doing 
this in their classes? Please email me at hlee25@xxxxxxxxx

I would appreciate any kind of help.
Thanks.

Sincerely,
Hyunju Lee

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