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Expanding Our Views Of Science Education To Address Sustainable Development, Empowerment, And Social Transformation, William Kyle Jan 2020

Expanding Our Views Of Science Education To Address Sustainable Development, Empowerment, And Social Transformation, William Kyle

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On 25 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, which took effect 1 January 2016, totransform the world to better meet human needs and the requirements of economic transformation, whileprotecting the environment, ensuring peace and realizing human rights. Since 1987, there have been several globalinitiatives oriented toward sustainable development, yet science educators have often remained silent with respectto ensuring the goals of science education are linked intrinsically to the central tenets of sustainable development.Why such silence? Where are the voices of science educators?In this position statement, I offer a rationale for expanding our views of science education to …