Tables of contents

Learning from the children: exploring preschool children's encounters with ICT at home

Christine Stephen, Joanna McPake, Lydia Plowman and Sarah Berch-Heyman

99

The school readiness of children living in a disadvantaged area in Ireland

Gemma Kiernan, Nick Axford, Michael Little, Cliona Murphy, Sheila Greene and Michael Gormley

119

The good, the bad and the pacifier: unsettling accounts of early years practice

Judy Whitmarsh

145

Performance of students from the former USSR in Greek schools

S Mitakidou, C Tourtouras and E Tressou

163

Emotion in children's art: do young children understand the emotions expressed in other children's drawings?

Plousia Misailidi and Fotini Bonoti

189

Book review: Teaching Traveller Children: Maximizing Learning Outcomes

Siobhan Fitzpatrick

201

Book review: Diversity and Difference in Early Childhood Education: Issues of Theory and Practice

Tricia Maynard

203

Social and ethical issues in science education: a prelude to action

Dana L Zeidler and Troy D Sadler

799

Students’ positions and considerations of scientific evidence about a controversial socioscientific issue

Virginie Albe

805

Exploring preservice elementary teachers’ critique and adaptation of science curriculum materials in respect to socioscientific issues

Cory T Forbes and Elizabeth A Davis

829

Promoting the role of the personal narrative in teaching controversial socioscientific issues

Ralph Levinson

855

Social and ethical dimension of the natural sciences, complex problems of the age, interdisciplinarity and the contribution of education

Maria Develaki

873

The use of ethical frameworks by students following a new science course for 16–18-year-olds

Michael Reiss

889

How a Deweyan science education further enables ethics education

Scott Webster

903

Disconnections between teacher expectations and student confidence in bioethics

Nikki L Hanegan, Laura Price and Jeremy Peterson

921

Promoting issues-based STSE perspectives in science teacher education: problems of identity and ideology

Erminia G Pedretti, Larry Bencze, Jim Hewitt, Lisa Romkey and Ashifa Jivraj

941

Captain America, Tuskegee, Belmont and righteous guinea pigs: considering scientific ethics through official and subaltern perspectives

Matthew Weinstein

961

Science education for democratic citizenship through the use of the history of science

Stein Dankert Kolstø

977

Textbook stickers: a reasonable response to evolution?

Jason Borenstein

999

Evolution as a controversial issue: a review of instructional approaches

Ronald S Hermann

1011

Addressing controversies in science education: a pragmatic approach to evolution education

David Hildebrand, Kimberly Bilica and John Capps

1033

Doing phenomenology in science education: a research review

Edvin Østergaard, Bo Dahlin, Aksel Hugo

93

Commonsense reasoning about the physical world

Joan Bliss

123

Should science educators deal with the science/religion issue?

Michael J Reiss

157

Geoscience education: an overview

Chris King

187

Editorial

1

Testing students with special needs: a model for understanding the interaction between assessment and student characteristics in a universally designed environment

Leanne R Ketterlin-Geller

3

Classification system for English language learners: issues and recommendations

Jamal Abedi

17

Building and supporting a validity argument for a standards-based classroom assessment of English proficiency based on teacher judgements

Lorena Llosa

32

Raju's differential functioning of items and tests (DFIT)

TC Oshima, SB Morris

43