TEACHERS' OWNERSHIP TOWARDS USING SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES FOR AN ACTIVE INFORMED CITIZENRY

Socio-scientific Issues are potentially a useful teaching area for enhancing learning. These can motivationally promote socially embedded nature of science topics through controversial issues, thus promoting students' argumentation skills, decision making skills, societal values, personal development as well as economic considerations. With the growing intention to develop active and informed citizenry worldwide, socio-scientific issues have the potential to promote very meaningful educational skills among the students, suggesting teacher ownership of a social scientific relationship is an important field to study and seek ways to promote. This study is intended to serve the purpose to seek teacher opinions and conceptualizations in this specific area with a view to understanding their ownership towards using socio-scientific issues to promote an active informed citizenry.