Wicked Problems in Prek-12 Science Education: Stories and Strategies for Confronting Complex Topics in the Science Classroom

This resource offers science educators strategies for tackling ’wicked problems’ in classrooms. Contributors address complex issues like climate change, social justice, political attacks on education and more. This book is ideal for science educators as a supplement to methods courses or for professional development.

Jennifer Kreps Frisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.

Daniel Mason Alston is an Associate Professor in the Cato College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, and the director for the Charlotte Teaching Fellows Program.

Allan Feldman is Emeritus Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, USA.

Rita Hagevik is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Science Education in the Biology Department at UNC-Pembroke, USA.

Michelle Schpakow is the Science Education Lecturer for Monmouth University’s School of Education, USA.