Creating a Socially Sensitive Learning Environment for Science Education: The SSIBL Framework

Abstract

Promoting Attainment of Responsible Research and Innovation in Science Education (acronym: PARRISE, an EU project for 2014-2017, http://www.parrise.eu/) has been developing and testing an integrated framework for Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning(SSIBL) based on the four components: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Socioscientific Issues (SSI), Citizenship Education (CE) and Inquiry Based Science Education(IBSE), this last being its core element.