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The study aimed to explore science teachers’ knowledge of bioenergy and their views regarding bioenergy education in schools. Data were collected from 28 science teachers from four schools based in New Delhi and Bengaluru in India. The results showed that although the teachers knew some of the facts of bioenergy, the majority did not appear to know that the use of bioenergy could release CO2 into the atmosphere. Moreover, not all the science teachers were aware that bioenergy was included in the science syllabus of the tenth grade, and it indicated that bioenergy was not taught with much importance by the science teachers. The study recommends improving science teachers’ knowledge of bioenergy including other renewable energy sources so that they can provide a high quality science education related to energy topics to their students.
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The author is thankful to the schools and teachers for their cooperation in the study. The author greatly acknowledges the funding support by the Kone Foundation (Helsinki, Finland) to carry out this research. Finally, the travel grant from the Kone Foundation for participating in the International Conference on Clean Energy 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, is also acknowledged by the author where the author presented this work.
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Halder, P. (2015). An Overview of Science Teachers’ Knowledge of Bioenergy and the Need for Future Research: A Case from India. In: Dincer, I., Colpan, C., Kizilkan, O., Ezan, M. (eds) Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17031-2_5
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