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Volume 23, Issue 2

February 2014

Genetics and Society: Educating Scientifically Literate Citizens

Issue Editors:

Kostas Kampourakis,
Thomas A.C. Reydon,
George Patrinos

14 articles in this issue

Genetics and Society—Educating Scientifically Literate Citizens: Introduction to the Thematic Issue
Kostas Kampourakis
Thomas A. C. Reydon
Bruno J. Strasser
OriginalPaper 29 October 2013 Pages: 251 - 258
What Was Wrong with Eugenics? Conflicting Narratives and Disputed Interpretations
Diane B. Paul
OriginalPaper 03 November 2012 Pages: 259 - 271
The Allusion of the Gene: Misunderstandings of the Concepts Heredity and Gene
Raphael Falk
OriginalPaper 04 July 2012 Pages: 273 - 284
Nature of Science, Scientific Inquiry, and Socio-Scientific Issues Arising from Genetics: A Pathway to Developing a Scientifically Literate Citizenry
Norman G. Lederman
Allison Antink
Stephen Bartos
OriginalPaper 13 June 2012 Pages: 285 - 302
Young Children’s Reasoning About Physical & Behavioural Family Resemblance: Is There a Place for a Precursor Model of Inheritance?
Marida Ergazaki
Aspa Alexaki
Marieleni Kalpakiori
OriginalPaper 17 April 2013 Pages: 303 - 323
Blood and Bones: The Influence of the Mass Media on Australian Primary School Children’s Understandings of Genes and DNA
Jenny Donovan
Grady Venville
OriginalPaper 23 June 2012 Pages: 325 - 360
From Flavr Savr Tomatoes to Stem Cell Therapy: Young People’s Understandings of Gene Technology, 15 Years on
Jenny Lewis
OriginalPaper 04 August 2012 Pages: 361 - 379
Conceptual Variation or Incoherence? Textbook Discourse on Genes in Six Countries
Niklas M. Gericke
Mariana Hagberg
Charbel N. El-Hani
OriginalPaper 10 June 2012 Pages: 381 - 416
Teachers’ Conceptions About the Genetic Determinism of Human Behaviour: A Survey in 23 Countries
Jérémy Castéra
Pierre Clément
OriginalPaper 19 July 2012 Pages: 417 - 443
The Status of Genetics Curriculum in Higher Education in the United States: Goals and Assessment
Teresa L. McElhinny
Michael J. Dougherty
Julie C. Libarkin
OriginalPaper 22 December 2012 Pages: 445 - 464
Determinism and Underdetermination in Genetics: Implications for Students’ Engagement in Argumentation and Epistemic Practices
María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre
OriginalPaper 20 November 2012 Pages: 465 - 484
Reframing and Articulating Socio-scientific Classroom Discourses on Genetic Testing from an STS Perspective
Dirk Jan Boerwinkel
Tsjalling Swierstra
Arend Jan Waarlo
OriginalPaper Open access 24 August 2012 Pages: 485 - 507
The Perfect Storm—Genetic Engineering, Science, and Ethics
Bernard E. Rollin
OriginalPaper 01 July 2012 Pages: 509 - 517
Genetics and Society Thematic Issue: Acknowledgement of Reviewers

Events 27 December 2013 Pages: 519 - 520