Rethinking Science Education in Latin-America

Ainoa Marzabal is a Science Education professor in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile). She has a PhD in Science Education, received from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Her current line of research is modelling-based school science education, considering both teaching and learning, as well as science teacher education. She has published several book chapters and papers about that subjects, both in Spanish and English. Her concern is mainly about how to address the science school curriculum, overloaded and fragmented, through the identification of its structuring nuclei, understood as school science models. Her current research focuses on identifying the learning progression of school chemical models, contributing to the understanding of the learning processes through which the multimodal representations of students are transformed by modelling processes in the science class.

Cristian Merino is a Science Education professor in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). He has a PhD in Science Education, received from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. His research interests focus on the characterization of chemical school activity for the development and analysis of innovation activities that favor the construction of school scientific explanations, with emphasis on the transit between the phenomenon and the theory under a modelling approach through experimental activities through technological and cognitive mediations, for the training of science teachers (especially in chemistry).

Part 1: Current Challenges For Science Education in Latin America.- Chapter 1, An Overview of Science Education In Latin America; Vicente Talanquer.- Chapter 2, Science Education for Students' Critical Scientific Literacy; Corina González, Leonardo Martínez, Gonzalo Guerrero, Lorena Rojas.- Chapter 3, Science Education for Sustainable Development; Laisa Freire, Felipe Kong, William Mora.- Chapter 4, Science Education for Self-Care and Public Health Promotion; Vanessa Aparecida, Valéria Ghisloti, Tiago Venturi, Andrea Revel, Claudia Probe.- Part 2: Foundations for a New Science Education in Latin America.- Chapter 5, Sociocultural Perspectives in Science Education; Jairo Robles, Adela Molina, Rafael Amador.- Chapter 6, Gender Perspectives in Science Education, Carolina Martínez-Galaz, Pamela Palomera.- Chapter 7, Intercultural Perspectives in Science Education; Alma Adriana Gómez Galindo, Alejandra García Franco, Marina Koller Hernández.- Chapter 8, Epistemological Foundations for Science Education; Yefrin Ariza, Cibelle Celestino, Luigi Cuellar.- Chapter 9, Curricular Perspectives in Science Education; Diana Rodríguez, Dulce María López, María del Carmen Urzúa.- Part 3: Rethinking Science Teaching and Learning in Latin America.- Chapter 10,  Inquiry-Based Science Education; Sylvia Moraga, Cristina García, Teresa Lupión,  Ángel Blanco.- Chapter 11, Modelling-Based Science Education; Cristian Merino, Ainoa Marzabal, Digna Couso.- Chapter 12, Classroom Discursive Practices for Science Education; Isabel Martins.- Chapter 13, Visual Representations for Science Teaching and Learning; Eduardo Ravanal, Elías Amórtegui, Diego Retana.- Chapter 14,  Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Science Learning; Gastón Pérez, Leonardo Galli.- Chapter 15, Digital Resources and Emerging Technologies for Science Learning; Jorge Rodríguez, Lizethly Cáceres, Johannes Pernaa, Maija Aksela, Álvaro García-Martínez, Miriam Struchiner, Mario Quintanilla, Sandra Abella, Mario Rodríguez.- Chapter 16, Science Learning in Informal and Non-Formal Settings; Natalia Candido, Adriana Pugliese.- Chapter 17, Implications for Science Education and Science Education Research; Agustín Adúriz-Bravo.