Kalali, Faouzia

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Comment les élèves Français rencontrent les défis relatifs à l'environnement?

International audienceWhilst the science education for the 21st century is meant to foster an engagement and anunderstanding of science in society and environmental problems, there is a need to examine thoseaspects and issues that are relevant (major issues, role of scientists and experts, role of the future...).However, little attention was paid to these concerns in the curriculum. Yet, young people’s views ofthe future reflect the sociopolitical concerns of the time (Hicks, 1996). In the present article, thepurpose is to document to what extent students do agree with the statements about someenvironmental challenges (pollution, overuse of resources, global changes of the climate, future...)with a data from a questionnaire-based study involving students attending secondary school in France.This study forms part of a wider international survey, the Relevance of Science Education (ROSE)project, based at the University of Oslo. Our result show that French students are interesting inlearning about pollution of water and air, but are not interesting in learning about practices thatlimit the effects of pollution and pesticides. Students seem to be unaware of the causal chain that isat the origin of pollution. Lange (2012) ensures the contribution of science partially to equip thecitizen for democratic deliberation within particular contexts. However, environmental knowledgecan be uncertain. This doubt maintains the democratic potential of the environmental issues, arousingcontroversies which are the lifestyle choices and the choices of society. Given these findings, wehave to help students to build a relationship to the environment, more relevant on social and personallevel, with more informed and located knowledge. A relationship renewed between humans andenvironment based on integrated designs of the future

Comment les élèves Français rencontrent les défis relatifs à l'environnement?

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