Reimagining Science Education: Computational Thinking, Computational Science and Sustainability Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2024) | Viewed by 3947
Special Issue Editors
Interests: science education; STEM education; computational thinking; cheminformatics education, bioinformatics education; computational science education; visualization in science education; sustainability education in computational science; teacher education; student-centred education
Interests: science education; climate change education; environmental education; STEM education; computational thinking; computational science education; visualization in science education; sustainability education; teacher education; student-centred education; ICT education
Interests: science education; STEM education; sustainability education; teacher education; student-centred education; ICT education; non-formal and informal education and co-design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis have highlighted the importance of addressing problems with innovative solutions that integrate computational science and involve cooperation and collaboration at different levels. These new challenges invite us to rethink science education from a better-connected perspective with proven solutions to local and global problems articulated with advances in frontier scientific research. The objective of this Special Issue, "Reimagining Science Education: Computational Thinking, Computational Science and Sustainability Education" is to contribute to understanding how scientific computing can support computational thinking and simultaneously involve students from different educational levels in sustainable development.
This Special Issue will focus on gathering evidence of innovative teaching developments and practices that invite us to reimagine science education to promote sustainability from a cross-disciplinary perspective articulated with computational science. In this sense, it intends to contribute to understanding the challenges and opportunities that scientific computing can provide to science education and STEM education, from primary education to the first years of university education as teachers in service and training.
We want to invite you to submit original research articles, Systematic or Scope Review articles, Perspective articles, as well as Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy articles, related to themes that include (but are not limited to):
- Computational Chemistry Education;
- Chemoinformatic Education;
- Computational Biology Education;
- Bioinformatic Education;
- Computational Science Education;
- Green and Sustainable Pharmacy Education;
- Sustainability Education;
- Sustainable Chemistry Education in Society;
- Green Analytical Chemistry Education;
- Interdisciplinary and integrative approach in Science and STEM education;
- Collaborative learning environments in Science and STEM;
- Visualization in Science Education;
- Computational science curricula in Science and STEM education;
- Teacher Education.
Prof. Dr. Jorge Rodríguez Becerra
Prof. Dr. Lizethly Cáceres Jensen
Prof. Dr. Maija Aksela
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- computational chemistry education
- cheminformatics education
- computational biology education
- STEM education
- scientific visualization
- modelling and simulations
- teacher education
- problem based learning
- project-based learning
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