Table of Contents

 Part I. Socioscientific issues, Nature of Science and scientific thinking.- 1. The relevancy of science education to public engagement with science.- 2. Engaging in argumentation as critical evaluation of the anti-vaccination movement.- 3. Theory of planned behavior in the context of stem cell donation.- 4. Prior knowledge, epistemic beliefs and socio-scientific topic context as predictors of the diversity of arguments on socio-scientific issues.- 5. Toward a questionnaire to assess biology student teachers’ knowledge of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI).- 6. Introducing primary school students to aspects of the nature of scientific knowledge.- Part II. Teaching and learning in biology.- 7. Digital narratives for biology learning.- 8. Digital first? Effects of digital and analogue learning tools on the plant knowledge acquisition of fututre biology teachers.- 9. Comparing inquiry-based learning and interactive lectures while teaching physiology to undergradate students.- 10. Train the trainer in the jigsaw puzzle of biology education: effects of mentor training on teaching quality.- 11. The assessment of an educational proposal to address the relationship between genetic information and protein synthesis.- 12. Evaluating the effectiveness of a teaching intervention in a marine biology course: the case of Greek vocational students.- 13. Promoting students’ understanding of gene-environment interaction in genetics education.- 14. Students’ conceptions as a neglected perspective in trainee teachers’ biology lesson plans.- Part III. Perceptions of biology and biology education.- 15. Students’ opinions about interdisciplinary lessons.- 16. Correlation between the popularity and difficulty of secondary school biology and perceived importance of knowledge acquired for personal wellbeing.- 17. Perception of biological disciplines by upper secondary school students.- 18. Analyzing the relationships between pre-service biology teachers' modelling processes, scientific reasoning competencies and general cognitive abilities.- 19. The pitfalls of using presentation technology in the biology classroom.- Part IV. Textbook analysis.- 20. Human reproduction in Greek Secondary Education textbooks (1870s to present).- 21. Exploring logico-semantic relations of historical gene models in similar genetic content in Greek biology school textbooks.- Part V. Outdoor and environmental education.- 22. Children’s interests and orientations towards nature: views from young children in England.- 23. Picturing the urban environment: using photovoice to bring university students’ views and voices into urban environmental education.