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T1 Citizen Science for Scientific Literacy and the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Formal Education
A1 Queiruga Dios, Miguel Ángel
A1 López Iñesta, Emilia
A1 Díez Ojeda, María
A1 Sáiz Manzanares, María Consuelo
A1 Vázquez Dorrío, José Benito
K1 Citizen science
K1 Secondary education
K1 Scientific literacy
K1 Curricular integration
K1 Innovation
K1 Science
K1 Gender
K1 SDG
K1 Enseñanza secundaria
K1 Education, Secondary
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
AB Curricular integration in formal teaching of citizen science can bring to the classroom aspects of scientific literacy that encourage the involvement of citizens. In particular, these include non-epistemic aspects related to the sociology of science (which are often not transferred to the classroom). Furthermore, this practice raises awareness among students, and encourages them to become participants in the attainment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article describes a proposal for the integration of a citizen science project into the secondary education curriculum that can be reproduced in any educational center. Eighty-three secondary school pupils (14–15 years old) took part in this research at a city-center school in Northern Spain. A questionnaire based on validated studies was created and used to analyze the changes in attitudes of pupils towards science and technology and their improvement in scientific literacy in terms of scientific processes and scientific situations. The results indicate a significant improvement in the attitudes towards science and technology among the participating learners, as well as a better understanding of scientific processes and situations. Likewise, the results reflect how the implementation of the citizen science project contributes to the SDGs
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6245
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6245
LA eng
NO Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León through the Dirección General de Innovación y Equidad Educativa, grant number EDUCYL2018_04 under the project «Igualdad de género en las materias científico-tecnológicas: análisis comparativo estudiantes STEM».
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 11-dic-2024