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Dana L. Zeidler is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States and conducts research mainly within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work has a strong focus on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research topics span areas such as Science Education and Pedagogy, Education and Critical Thinking Development, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Animal and Plant Science Education, Diverse Educational Innovations Studies, Environmental Education and Sustainability, and Climate Change Communication and Perception.

Recent publications by Dana L. Zeidler include:

  • SAQ, SSI and STSE education: defending and extending "science-in-context", 2020, Cultural Studies of Science Education
  • Impact of place-based socioscientific issues instruction on students' contextualization of socioscientific orientations, 2021, Science Education
  • Developing socioscientific perspective taking, 2020, International Journal of Science Education
  • Elementary Preservice Teachers' Challenges in Designing and Implementing Socioscientific Issues-Based Lessons, 2020, Journal of Science Teacher Education
  • Elementary preservice teachers' pedagogical decisions about socioscientific issues instruction, 2024, Journal of Research in Science Teaching

They have coauthored multiple works with the following researchers:

  • Mark Newton
  • Melanie Kinskey
  • Xana Sá-Pinto
  • Alex C. Jeffries
  • Patrícia Pessoa

Dana L. Zeidler's publications appear frequently in journals such as:

  • Journal of Research in Science Teaching
  • Cultural Studies of Science Education
  • Science Education
  • International Journal of Science Education
  • Journal of Science Teacher Education

Their contributions also include book publications, notably the title Learning Evolution Through Socioscientific Issues published by KU Leuven in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Beyond STS: A research‐based framework for socioscientific issues education

    Dana L. Zeidler;Troy D. Sadler;Michael L. Simmons;Elaine V. Howes

  • Patterns of Informal Reasoning in the Context of Socioscientific Decision Making.

    Troy D. Sadler;Dana L. Zeidler

  • Tangled up in views: Beliefs in the nature of science and responses to socioscientific dilemmas

    Dana L. Zeidler;Kimberly A. Walker;Wayne A. Ackett;Michael L. Simmons

  • Student conceptualizations of the nature of science in response to a socioscientific issue

    Troy D. Sadler;F. William Chambers;Dana L. Zeidler

  • Socioscientific Issues: Theory and Practice

    Dana L. Zeidler;Bryan H. Nichols

  • The Morality of Socioscientific Issues: Construal and Resolution of Genetic Engineering Dilemmas.

    Troy D. Sadler;Dana L. Zeidler

  • Science teachers' conceptions of the nature of science: Do they really influence teaching behavior?

    Norman G. Lederman;Dana L. Zeidler

  • The Significance of Content Knowledge for Informal Reasoning regarding Socioscientific Issues: Applying Genetics Knowledge to Genetic Engineering Issues.

    Troy D. Sadler;Dana L. Zeidler

  • Scientific literacy, PISA, and socioscientific discourse: Assessment for progressive aims of science education

    Troy D. Sadler;Dana L. Zeidler

  • Advancing reflective judgment through Socioscientific Issues

    Dana L. Zeidler;Troy D. Sadler;Scott Applebaum;Brendan E. Callahan

  • Socioscientific Issues as a Curriculum Emphasis: Theory, Research, and Practice

    Dana L. Zeidler

  • STEM education: A deficit framework for the twenty first century? A sociocultural socioscientific response

    Dana L. Zeidler

  • Promoting Discourse about Socioscientific Issues through Scaffolded Inquiry

    Kimberly A. Walker;Dana L. Zeidler

  • The Role of Moral Reasoning and the Status of Socioscientific Issues in Science Education

    Dana L. Zeidler;Matthew Keefer

  • The central role of fallacious thinking in science education

    Dana L. Zeidler

  • Moral Sensitivity in the Context of Socioscientific Issues in High School Science Students

    Samantha R. Fowler;Dana L. Zeidler;Troy D. Sadler

  • Contextualizing Nature of Science Instruction in Socioscientific Issues

    Jennifer Lynne Eastwood;Troy D. Sadler;Dana L. Zeidler;Anna Lewis

  • New directions in socioscientific issues research

    Dana L. Zeidler;Benjamin C. Herman;Troy D. Sadler

  • Socioscientific Issues as a Curriculum Emphasis

    Dana L. Zeidler

  • The Role of Moral Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues and Discourse in Science Education

    Dana Lewis Zeidler

Frequent Co-Authors

Troy D. Sadler
Troy D. Sadler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Norman G. Lederman
Norman G. Lederman Illinois Institute of Technology
Sibel Erduran
Sibel Erduran University of Oxford
Marcia C. Linn
Marcia C. Linn University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Krajcik
Joseph Krajcik Michigan State University
Stella Vosniadou
Stella Vosniadou Flinders University
Cedric Linder
Cedric Linder Uppsala University
Jonathan Osborne
Jonathan Osborne Stanford University
Robert E. Yager
Robert E. Yager University of Iowa

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