ELE440 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
| Course Code: |
4100440 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
7.0 |
| Department: |
Elementary Education |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
A course targets to introduce students with alternative views of science and technology through reading materials outside of education, such as sociology and history of science, to reveal the meaning of STS based science education instruction, to present the rationale of such an approach, to help students to compare STS approach in science education with traditional approaches, to create STS based lesson plans and to develop students’ intellectual accumulation related to science, technology and society.
