Concluding remarks: Science education research for enhancing classroom learning

Abstract

The Social Sciences undertake a dual role. On the one hand, they take on the responsibility to study the phenomena relating to human interactions and, through these studies, to contribute to our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms in a way that is coherent and generalizable, to the extent possible. On the other hand, they also take on the responsibility to contribute, through local action, to the organization and function of systems that tend to be highly local in their features and often contextualized in their intents.