Books written by Leif Östman
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Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy
In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education.
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Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy
Methodological considerations for studying science-in-the-making in educational settings. ... The epistemological framing of a discipline: Writing science in university oceanography. ... Rethinking scientific literacy.
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Deweyan Transactionalism in Education: Beyond Self-action and Inter-action
Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the individual and sociocultural dimension of education, and ...
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Empirical Philosophical Investigations in Education and Embodied Experience
Drawing on John Dewey and the later Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book employs philosophy as a conceptual resource to develop new methodological and analytical tools for conducting in situ empirical investigations.
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Education for Sustainable Development: Nature, School and Democracy
This book contributes to advancing the knowledge and skills required for teaching sustainable development, including: the ability to make conscious choices among available alternative contents and methods for deepening students' ...
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Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and Political Challenges
The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of ...