A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH PAPERS ON CHEMISTRY-FOCUSED SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES
Journal: Journal of Baltic Science Education (Vol.20, No. 3)Publication Date: 2021-06-10
Authors : Muammer Çalık; Antuni Wiyarsi;
Page : 360-372
Keywords : chemistry education; relevance model; socio-scientific issues; systematic review;
Abstract
Although chemistry-focused socio-scientific issues support the ‘relevance' model of chemistry education, the related literature has lacked any systematic review handling them together. For this reason, this research aimed to thematically synthesize the research papers on chemistry-focused socio scientific issues (SSI) from 2008 to 2020 and inferentially evaluate them in terms of the relevance model of chemistry education. After searching international and national well-known databases through relevant keyword patterns (e.g., Pattern 1: socio-scientific issues and chemistry education), 65 research papers were apparent for the systematic review. Then, the authors generated primary and secondary codes for the research papers and then inferentially marked their ‘relevance' components. The systematic review indicated variation of research areas (e.g., relevance model of chemistry education) and dominant research foci for different themes (e.g., competencies and related variables for the theme ‘aims'; pollution, energy, industry and fabrication-based problems for the theme ‘SSI'; organic compounds for the theme ‘chemistry concepts'). Further, it revealed that the research papers on chemistry-focused SSI had some shortcomings at handling all components of the relevance model in a balanced way. The current research suggests professionally training teachers about how to integrate chemistry-focused SSI and the relevance model into school chemistry.
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