Part 1: Overview of the book
Overview of the book, Catherine Bruguière, Andrée Tiberghien, Pierre Clément
Part 2: Socio-Scientific Issues
The Need for a Public Understanding of Sciences, Isabelle Stengers
Questions Socialement Vives and Socio-Scientific Issues: New Trends of Research to Meet the Training Needs of Post-Modern Society, Laurence Simonneaux
Teachers' Beliefs, Classroom Practices and Professional Development towards Socio-Scientific Issues, Virginie Albe, Catherine Barrué, Larry Bencze, Anne Kristine Byhring, Lyn Carter, Marcus Grace, Erik Knain, Dankert Kolstø, Pedro Reis and Erin Sperling
Which perspectives are referred in students' arguments about a Socio-scientific Issue? The case of Bears' reintroduction in the Pyrenees, Ana M. Domènech and Conxita Márquez
Learning about the role and function of science in public debate as an essential component of scientific literacy, Ingo Eilks, Jan A. Nielsen, Avi Hofstein
Exploring Secondary Students' Arguments in the Context of Socio-scientific Issues, Dr. Fatih Çaǧlayan Mercan, Dr. Buket Yakmacı-Güzel, and Dr. Füsun Akarsu
Teachers' Beliefs on Science-Technology-Society (STS) and Nature of Science (NOS): Strengths, Weaknesses, and Teaching Practice, Ángel Vázquez-Alonso; María-Antonia Manassero-Mas; Antonio García-Carmona and Antoni Bennàssar-Roig
Part 3: Teachers' Practices and Teachers Professional Development
Professional Learning of Science Teachers, Jan H. Van Driel
Nanoeducation: Zooming into Teacher Professional Development Programs in Nanoscience and Technology, Ron Blonder, Ilka Parchmann, Sevil Akaygun, and Virginie Albe
Education for Sustainable Development: An International Survey on Teachers' Conceptions, Pierre Clément and Silvia Caravita
Learning to Teach Science as Inquiry: Developing an Evidence-based Framework for Effective Teacher Professional Development,Barbara A. Crawford, Daniel K. Capps, Jan van Driel, Norman Lederman, Judith Lederman, Julie Luft, Sissy Wong, Aik Ling Tan , Shirley Lim, John Loughran, Kathy Smith
Weaving Relationships in a Teaching Sequence Using ICT: A Case Study in Optics at Lower Secondary School, Suzane El Hage, Christian Buty
Inquiry based mathematics and science education across Europe: A synopsis of various approaches and their potentials, Katrin Engeln, Silke Mikelskis-Seifert, Manfred Euler
Measuring Chemistry Teachers' Content Knowledge
Is it correlated to Pedagogical Content Knowledge? Oliver Tepner and Sabrina Dollny
PART 4: The students
Multiple Perspectives
Boys in Physics Lessons: Focus on Masculinity in an Analysis of Learning Opportunities, Josimeire M. Julio, Arnaldo M. Vaz
Which Effective Competencies Do Students Use in PISA Assessment of Scientific Literacy? Florence Le Hebel, Pascale Montpied, Andrée Tiberghien
Development of Understanding in Chemistry, Hannah Sevian, Vicente Talanquer, Astrid M. W. Bulte, Angelica Stacy, Jennifer Claesgens
Learning Affordances: Understanding Visitors' Learning in Science Museum Environment, Hyeonjeong Shin, Eun Ji Park, Chan-Jong Kim
Modelling and Assessing Experimental Competencies in Physics, Heike They€en, Horst Schecker, Christoph Gut, Martin Hopf, Jochen Kuhn, Peter Labudde, Andreas Müller, Nico Schreiber, Patrik Vogt
Understanding Students' Conceptions of Electromagnetic Induction: A Semiotic Analysis, Jennifer Yeo
Part 5 Relationships between Teaching and Learning
Analysing Classroom Activities: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations, Gregory J. Kelly
The Impact of a Context-led Curriculum on Different Students' Experiences of School Science, Indira Banner & Jim Ryder
Students' Experienced Coherence between Chemistry and Biology in Context-Based Secondary Science Education, Hilde J. Boer, Gjalt T. Prins, Martin J. Goedhart and Kerst Th. Boersma
The Relationship between Teaching and Learning of Chemical Bonding and Structures, Ray Lee, Maurice M. W. Cheng
Blending Physical and Virtual Manipulatives in Physics Laboratory Experimentation, Georgios Olympiou & Zacharias C. Zacharia
Becoming a Health Promoting School: Effects of a three year intervention on school development and pupils, Steffen Schaal
Disagreement in 'Ordinary' Teaching Interactions: A Study of Argumentation in a Science Classroom, Ana Paula Souto-Silva, Danusa Munford
Analysis of Teaching and Learning Practices in Physics and Chemistry Education: Theoretical and Methodological Issues, Patrice Venturini, Andrée Tiberghien, Claudia von Aufschnaiter, Gregory Kelly, Eduardo Mortimer
Part 6Teaching Resources, Curriculum
Designing a Learning Progression for Teaching and Learning about Matter in Early School Years, Andrés Acher & María Arcà
'Realistic-Fiction Storybooks' as a Resource for Problematic Questioning of Living Being with Pupils in Primary School, Catherine Bruguière and Eric Triquet
Nature of Science as Portrayed in the Physics Official Curricula and Textbooks in Hong Kong and on the Mainland of the People's Republic of China,Ka Lok Cheng and Siu Ling Wong
On the transfer of teaching-learning materials from one educational setting to another, R. Pintó, M. Hernández, C. P. Constantinou
CoReflect
Web-based Inquiry Learning Environments on Socio-Scientific issues, Andreas Redfors, Lena Hansson, Eleni A. Kyza, Iolie Nicolaidou, Itay Asher, Iris Tabak, Nicos Papadouris and Christakis Avraam
Adapting web-based inquiry learning environments from one country to another: The CoReflect experience, Eleni A. Kyza, Christothea Herodotou, Iolie Nicolaidou, Andreas Redfors and Lena Hansson, Sascha Schanze, Ulf Saballus, Nicos Papadouris4, Georgia Michael.