TY - GEN digital ID - 131670289 TI - The Natural World and Science Education in the United States AU - Sharma, Ajay AU - Buxton, Cory PY - 2018 SN - 9783319761862 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Curriculum development KW - Educational systems. Teaching systems KW - Didactics of sciences KW - Kindergarten KW - Educational sciences KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences KW - Applied sciences KW - HO (hoger onderwijs) KW - duurzaamheid KW - wetenschap KW - onderwijs KW - curriculumontwikkeling KW - wetenschappen KW - kleuterdidactiek KW - peuters UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131670289 AB - This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States. Given the importance of our relationship with the nonhuman world for the fate of our planet, this work gives special attention to the representation, instruction, and understanding of the relationship between the social and the natural world. It also proposes an alternative, sustainability science-based conceptual framework for ecology and environmental science topics in science education, which is compatible with the current social-ecological understanding of life in the Anthropocene epoch. ER -