MULTI-DIMENTIONAL CONNECTIONS: THE LIGGINS EDUCATION NETWORK FOR SCIENCE: Developing Partnerships to Enhance Science Education

The science that underpins issues with which 21st Century societies engage is extremely complex and presents significant challenges in the development of functional scientific literacy for citizens. Science education in the compulsory education sector has responded with the centrality of development of understanding of the nature of science in curricula. This is intended to enable the development of an individual’s ability to judge the work of scientists, decide whether or not to trust the views of scientists, and respond to the findings of science when understanding of the concepts underpinning the science is well beyond most citizens.