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Makale Özeti:
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This paper focuses upon the problem of raising environmental awareness in the context
of school science. By focusing, as it does, on the relationship between the self
and the natural environment, the paper discusses the difficulties that exist, such as the
students’ involvement with the natural world, as their object of study, the empirical
treatment and the modeling of the natural world, and the purpose of learning science,
as well as the possibilities for promoting the development of such relationship by
keeping the natural world, as an object of study, in the foreground of the teachinglearning
process. Such possibilities refer to the awareness of the personal and wider
significance of science ideas and socio-scientific issues, the wonder evoked by science
ideas and by natural forms and phenomena, the aesthetic appreciation of the
natural world, and the ‘story of the universe’, as a story that addresses the interconnection
of science and human life. The educational importance of ‘awareness’ is also
discussed in the paper.
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