Science education, particularly school science education, has long had an uneasy relationship with ethics, being unsure whether to embrace ethics or leave it to others. In this book, the authors argue that while the methods of science and of ethics are very different, ethics plays a key role in how science is undertaken and used. And so, ethics has a central place in science education, whether we are talking of school science education, for students of all ages, or the informal science education that takes place in through internet, books, magazines, TV and radio, or in places such as hospitals and zoos.

Written for science educators based in schools and elsewhere, the authors make no assumptions that the reader has any knowledge of ethics beyond the background understandings of morality that virtually all of us have. Empowered with the knowledge shared in this book, readers will feel confident about the place that ethics has in science education. The authors provide a rich array of examples as to how science education, both in school and out of school, and for all ages, can be enhanced through including teaching about ethics.

About the Authors

Amanda McCrory is Lecturer in EYFS, Primary and Science Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK, where she is also the lead for the Science Special Interest Research Group and a member of the UCL Institute of Education Ethics Review team.

Michael J. Reiss is Professor of Science Education at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and President of the Association for Science Education and International Society for Science and Religion.

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