Student engagement and learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) fields in primary and secondary schools is increasingly being emphasized as the …

Background There is widespread agreement that participation in post-compulsory physics
needs to be widened and increased, particularly among women and under-represented …

The current study is about students' engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI). We
explored the use of sources of knowledge about SSI and attitudes toward SSI among a …

In this position paper, we introduce the concept of socioscientific capital (SSC) to denote
students' resources that unequivocally play a part when students learn about and make …

Fossil fuel corporations play a significant role in promoting their interests in schools and
other educational institutions, a practice that has recently been labelled as 'petro …

Student engagement with science is a long-standing, central interest within science
education research. In this article, we examine student engagement with science using a …

Critical reflective practice is a foundation of socially just pedagogy. This paper focuses on
the informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) learning sector, where …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the 'equalising effect of schools' in general and two
concrete interventions that have been carried out recently in Sweden in particular. The first …

Women from working class and some ethnic minority backgrounds continue to be
underrepresented in science, particularly in areas such as physical sciences and …

Executive summary This report seeks to examine the current evidence base and explore the
apparent tension between technology as an object of study and technology as a teaching …