Science Teacher Education for Responsible Citizenship: Towards a Pedagogy for Relevance through Soci

Chapter 1. Introduction: Socio-scientific issues as promoting responsible citizenship and the relevance of science (Maria Evagorou and Justin Dillon).- Chapter 2. Teachers and Socioscientific Issues - An Overview of Recent Empirical Research (Jan Alexis Nielsen).- Chapter 3. Pre-service secondary science teachers' beliefs about teaching socio-scientific issues (Jessica S. C. Leung, Ka Lok Wong, and Kennedy K. H. Chan).- Chapter 4. Socio-scientific inquiry-based learning: possibilities and challenges for teacher education (Ruth Amos, Marie-Christine Knippels and Ralph Levinson).- Chapter 5. Critical and Active Public Engagement in Addressing Socioscientific Problems Through Science Teacher Education (Larry Bencze, Sarah El Halwany and Majd Zouda).- Chapter 6. Supporting Teachers in the Design and Enactment of Socio-Scientific Issue Based Teaching in the USA (Patricia J. Friedrichsen, Troy D. Sadler and Laura Zangori).- Chapter 7. Gamification of SSI's as a Science Pedagogy: Toward a Critical Rationality in Teaching Science (James P. Davis and Alberto Bellocchi).- Chapter 8. Science teachers as proponents of socio-scientific inquiry-based learning: From professional development to classroom enactment (Rachel Cohen, Eran Zafrani and Anat Yarden).- Chapter 9. Getting ready to work with socio-scientific issues in the classroom: a study with Argentine teachers (Melina Furman, Inés Taylor, Mariana Luzuriaga and María Eugenia Podestá).- Chapter 10. Introducing SSI in primary pre-service teacher education: scientific practices to learn the 'big ideas' of science (Anna Garrido Espeja and Digna Couso).- Chapter 11. Re-thinking the Integration of Socioscientific Issues in Teacher Education (Ronicka Mudaly).- Chapter 12. New Perspectives for Addressing Socioscientific Issues in Teacher Education (Jan Alexis Nielsen, Maria Evagorou and Justin Dillon).