Michael J Reis
Biographic Data
| ID | 147585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Reis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Reis |
| SIGNATURE | REIS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1207-4229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bridging science and faith in the classroom: Effects of cross-disciplinary science and religious education teaching on student attitudes
Although science and religion are often portrayed as conflicting explanatory systems, this study shows that many secondary school students do not view them as inherently contradictory, and that teaching approaches can reduce perceptions of conflict. The research involved 14–15-year-old students in England participating in an educational intervention that presented religious education in ways that explored connections with science while teaching b…
Creating a pedagogical framework to support pre-service teacher planning of practical work in science education
Practical work is a distinctive feature of science education and for many students can be an aspect which draws them to the sciences. Yet the value of practical work for enhancing student learning in the ways teachers intend has been contested, leading to criticisms of practical working being unproductive, confusing and ill-conceived. To support pre-service teachers’ pedagogical knowledge development for planning for practical work, we repurpose …
Changes in interest in school science among secondary school students in Mauritius
For decades, low enrolment in science subjects at the secondary level, once these subjects become optional, has been a significant issue for many countries, including Mauritius. Mauritius has slowly transitioned from a monocrop economy to a more diversified economy relying more on science- and technology-dependent fields. This shift requires adequate human capital in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) areas. This study aims t…
Validation and Use of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) Instrument for Secondary School Students
This study evaluates the reliability and validity of the Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) instrument by implementing necessary modifications, extending the sample size, and providing a clear and objective scoring process. A total of 347 participants from a secondary school in China completed two scientific creativity assessments, using the two versions of the C-SCA. The results indicate acceptable reliability and validity fo…
Enhancing scientific creativity through an inquiry-based teaching approach in secondary science classrooms
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of inquiry-based teaching on students’ scientific creativity. Using a quasi-experimental design in a Chinese secondary school, the study compared intervention students (N = 102) and control students (N = 245), employing pre- and post-assessments with the ‘Comprehensive Scientific Creativity’ instrument. The intervention involved a biology teacher taking five inquiry-based teaching lessons over a…
Students’ views around scientific research, the nature of science, and their intentions to choose science and science-related careers
Students often have positive views about science, although can also feel that doing science or being a scientist is less feasible or appealing. Accordingly, this study explored associations between students’ intentions to choose science and science-related careers and their views around scientific research and the nature of science. 289 school students were surveyed, covering Year 9 to Year 13 (13/14–17/18 years old) from England and Guernsey, an…
Our use of the material world: The concept of frugality in the Chinese cultural tradition and its educational relevance for today
In recent times, humans have abandoned aspects of the ancient wisdom that has sustained us for thousands of years. Frugality, a traditional virtue of the Chinese people, is a proactive choice grounded in moral reasoning. Frugality represents the unity of ‘restraint in desire’ and ‘moderation in use’; both are best understood as lived expressions of phronesis (practical wisdom), a culturally embedded, teachable orientation that integrates ethical …
Why we need to teach everyone about reproductive health
Reproductive health is a topic that concerns everyone but its coverage in schools worldwide is patchy. Given current falls in total fertility rate and rises in the age at which women have their first child, there is an urgent need to ensure that teenagers and young adults understand fertility and reproductive health. This would help them to make informed choices about family building. Recent research has shown that even in England, one of the few…
A configurational exploration of how personality traits influence GAI academic misconduct behaviors using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
This study demonstrates that personality traits interact synergistically rather than independently to shape individuals' ethical or unethical engagement with AI technologies. Moral restraint is sustained by both the presence of virtues and the absence of exploitative tendencies. The findings support the idea that moral integrity and self-regulation constitute foundational safeguards against unethical use of technology. These findings align with s…
A place for Basil Bernstein in the field: How applicable is Basil Bernstein’s theory of codes and social groups as a way of understanding educational inequity in upper secondary education in Iceland d…
In this article, key aspects of Basil Bernstein’s theory of elaborating and restricted codes are analysed within the Icelandic context to determine whether it can be employed when researching socio-economic inequities in upper-secondary education in Iceland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on empirical data, the article applies and tests the work of Bernstein on how understanding of restricted codes related to education controls access to th…
Science teachers' perspectives on scientific creativity in an examination-oriented educational system
In many countries, examination-oriented education systems constrain scientific creativity in classrooms. This study investigates science teachers' perspectives on scientific creativity within such a context. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 16 science teachers from a Chinese upper secondary school. The interviews were audio-taped and subsequently transcribed for analysis. Findings revealed that teachers characterised creative stude…
Dialogue Between Science and Religious Education: Philosophical Reflections on Evolution Instruction Using Pedagogy of Difference
Science educators may puzzle about how best to teach evolution while remaining sensitive to students whose faith may conflict with the scientifically accepted theory about the origins of the universe, of life, or of humankind. Similarly, teachers of religious or cultural heritages may struggle to explore sacred creation narratives while remaining sensitive to students whose worldviews may privilege science over religion or in an environment in wh…
Understanding and cultivation of nature connectedness in China: An analysis of national moral education school textbooks for primary students
Most of the research about nature connectedness has been conducted in Western countries and is characterised by dualism between humans and nature. This article examines how China understands and attempts to foster children’s connection to the natural world. Analysis of the current moral education primary school textbooks in China reveals that the principal way in which the relationship between humans and nature is portrayed is that humans are see…
‘Owning’ climate change for moral education
It is widely acknowledged that anthropogenic climate change is already having severe adverse effects on our planet and poses an existential threat to many species, including our own. National curricula and schools and other formal educational settings have been slow to address the issue of climate change, despite the deep traction that it has with many young people. This paper introduces the papers in a Special Issue that arose from a four-day re…
Why do victims remain silent? An ethical reflection on the phenomenon of school bullying in China
School bullying is widespread, and a common phenomenon is that those who are bullied remain silent, rather than talking about their experiences. This paper explores a case of victim silence through the recollections of a woman who was bullied at school. Drawing on Levinas’ concept of the ‘Other’ and the notion of the ‘underworld’, we analyse why victims remain silent and the educational issues underpinning their silence. The study shows that chil…
Flourishing as an educational aim: The case for school health education
Flourishing has increasingly been defended in recent years as the overarching aim of education. Unsurprisingly, it has also been criticized on a number of grounds (e.g. the notion is imprecise, it has not got much to do with learning, it is insufficiently inclusive). In this article, I do not seek to add to the literature about the adequacy of flourishing as the overarching aim of education. Rather, I accept its utility as an umbrella term and fo…
Twenty-Five Years of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education: Past, Present, Future
It has been 25 years since the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education first appeared. In this article, I first look back at the year 2001, both in general terms and in terms of science education; I then consider the current state of science education; finally, I spend most of the article looking at what school science might (should, in my view) be like in the future. I examine issues to do with the motivation of school …
Professional learning in primary science: Developing teacher confidence to improve the leadership of teaching and learning
The worrying decline in the status of primary school science in schools in England has been linked to low teacher confidence in teaching science and to schools being heavily focused on achievement in English and mathematics.This article reports on a novel professional learning strategy that was provided for 23 primary science leaders over five half-day workshops.Workshops focused on key topics that teachers reported having least confidence in tea…
What have 16- to 18-year-olds in England learnt about reproductive health? A survey of school students
Objective: Most countries teach limited information about sex and reproductive health education, often concentrating on how not to get pregnant. In this study, we examine what 16- to 18-year-olds in England have learnt and their views about reproductive health education. Design: This is a mixed-methods study. An anonymous, online survey was conducted on Qualtrics software using multiple-choice and open-ended questions. Schools were recruited via …
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists
Students often convey positive perceptions of science and scientists, although fewer express aspirations towards becoming scientists. Students' science identities may link with wider perceptions, including what working as a scientist involves, although less research has explored these perceptions in detail. To gain new insights, questionnaire responses were considered from 289 school students across Year 9 to Year 13 (age 13/14 to 17/18 years old…
Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite, Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’: Addressing Ethical Issues in Science Education
Many science educators have argued in favour of including socioscientific issues (SSI) in general, and ethical issues in particular, in school science. However, there have been a number of objections to this proposal, and it is widely acknowledged that such teaching places additional demands on science teachers. This study examined the curricula, textbooks and views of both student teachers and established teachers in England and in Germany regar…
Linking research and practice in education: The views of expert researchers in the field
The existence of a gap between educational research and practice, resulting in research that makes only a limited contribution to the improvement of professional practices in education, has been a topic of much discussion. There is widespread agreement among researchers that practice in education should be informed by research evidence. At the same time, other authors have voiced concerns about giving evidence-based practice too prominent a place…
Investigative Research Projects for Students in Science: The State of the Field and a Research Agenda
One of the ways in which students can be taught science is by doing science, the intention being to help students understand the nature, processes, and methods of science. Investigative research projects may be used in an attempt to reflect some aspects of science more authentically than other teaching and learning approaches, such as confirmatory practical activities and teacher demonstrations. In this article, we are interested in the affordanc…
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species
Why space exploitation may provide sustainable development: Climate ethics and the human future as a multi-planetary species
Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges
Future human space missions to Mars and beyond may be realized for different research, economic, political or survival reasons. Since space remains a hazardous environment for humans, space exploration and exploitation requires the development and deployment of effective countermeasures. In this paper, we discuss prospects for human enhancement by gene editing, synthetic biology, or implants, for the purposes of future space missions. We argue th…
Bovine Tuberculosis and Badger Culling in England: A Utilitarian Analysis of Policy Options
Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is an important animal health policy issue in Britain, which impacts farmers, the public, domestic farmed cattle and the wild badger population. The Westminster government’s badger culling policy in England, which began in 2013, has caused considerable controversy. This is in part because the Independent Scientific Group advised against culling, based on the Randomised Badger Culling Trial. Those opposed to badger …
Bovine Tuberculosis Policy in England: Would a Virtuous Government Cull Mr Badger
Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is the most important animal health and welfare policy issue in Britain. Badgers are a wildlife reservoir of disease, although the eight-year Independent Scientific Group (ISG) Randomised Badger Culling Trial concluded with a recommendation against culling. The report advised government that bovine TB could be controlled, and ultimately eradicated, by cattle-based measures alone. Despite the ISG recommendation agai…
Bovine Tuberculosis and Badger Culling in England: An Animal Rights-Based Analysis of Policy Options
Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is an important and controversial animal health policy issue in England, which impacts humans, cattle and badgers. The government policy of badger culling has led to widespread opposition, in part due to the conclusions of a large field trial recommending against culling, and in part because badgers are a cherished wildlife species. Animal rights (AR) theorists argue that sentient nonhumans should be accorded funda…
Adolescents Care but Don’t Feel Responsible for Farm Animal Welfare
Adolescents are the next generation of consumers with the potential to raise standards of farm animal welfare—to their satisfaction—if their preferences and concerns are translated into accurate market drivers and signals. There are no published data about adolescent views of farm animal welfare to allow meaningful design, implementation, and evaluation of educational strategies to improve consideration of—and behavior toward—farm animals. Knowle…
Twenty-Five Years of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education: Past, Present, Future
It has been 25 years since the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education first appeared. In this article, I first look back at the year 2001, both in general terms and in terms of science education; I then consider the current state of science education; finally, I spend most of the article looking at what school science might (should, in my view) be like in the future. I examine issues to do with the motivation of school …
Bovine Tuberculosis and Badger Control in Britain: Science, Policy and Politics
Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is the most economically important animal health policy issue in Britain. The problem of what to do about badgers has plagued successive governments since a dead badger was discovered with bovine TB in 1971. Successive Labour governments (1997–2010) oversaw the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) from 1998 to 2006. Despite the RBCT recommendation against culling, the 2010–2015 Coalition government implemented pi…
Students' intentions to study non‐compulsory mathematics: The importance of how good you think you are
Increasing the number of students who study mathematics once it is no longer compulsory remains a priority for E ngland. A longitudinal cohort from E ngland (1085 students) was surveyed at Years 10 and 12. Students' self‐beliefs of ability influenced their GCSE mathematics grades and their intended and actual mathematics subject‐choices; the degree of under‐confidence or over‐confidence related to these self‐beliefs was also influential. Addition…
Ethical Considerations at the Various Stages in the Development, Production, and Consumption of GM Crops
Kin selection, social grooming and the removal of ectoparasites: A theoretical investigation
The Multicultural Dimension of the National Curriculum
On the laterality of twins
Genetic problems of dexterity
Study on arm folding
Environmental Education, Ethics and Citizenship Conference, Held at the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers), 20 May 1998
The search for a worldwide environmental ethic is linked to the increase in environmental concern since (particularly) the 1960s, and the recognition that environmental problems can have a global impact. Numerous people and organizations have put forward their understanding of the necessary components of such an ethic and these have converged in a series of international statements (Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment, 1972; World Char…
Environmental education, ethics and citizenship conference, held at the royal geographical society (with the institute of British geographers), 20 may 1998: The place of living organisms in children's…
To date, insufficient work has been carried out on how children view living organisms in the environment. In this study a large number of conversations were audio‐taped and transcribed while primary age pupils observed meal worms or brine shrimps (both of which are invertebrates) during science activities. Analysis revealed the ways in which the pupils interpreted what they saw in terms of their prior experience. We discuss the implications of th…
Alchemy Revived
Loves that Have a Quiet Voice
(2001). Loves that Have a Quiet Voice. International Journal of Children's Spirituality: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 243-245
Loves that Have a Quiet Voice
Loves that Have a Quiet Voice
(2001). Loves that Have a Quiet Voice. International Journal of Children's Spirituality: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 243-245
Ethical Considerations at the Various Stages in the Development, Production, and Consumption of GM Crops
Students’ attitudes towards science: A long‐term perspective
Xenotransplantation and the Problem of Boundaries
It is widely known that an increasing number of countries have severe shortages of organs for transplantation. Tens of thousands of people worldwide die each year waiting for organs. Perhaps, ironically, the shortages have been exacerbated in some countries by reductions in the number of people killed in car and motorcycle accidents and by improvements in transplant surgery
Towards a More Authentic Science Curriculum: The contribution of out‐of‐school learning
In many developed countries of the world, pupil attitudes to school science decline progressively across the age range of secondary schooling while fewer students are choosing to study science at higher levels and as a career. Responses to these developments have included proposals to reform the curriculum, pedagogy, and the nature of pupil discussion in science lessons. We support such changes but argue that far greater use needs to be made of o…
Seeing the natural world: A tension between pupils' diverse conceptions as revealed by their visual representations and monolithic science lessons
In this article, the authors report on drawings of the natural environment produced by a sample of 13–14-year-olds. One of their interests is the extent to which these young people see the world in the way rewarded in science lessons. With rare exceptions, school science generally assumes that for any scientific issue there is a single valid scientific conception so that alternative conceptions are misconceptions. The drawings reveal a plurality …
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda - By Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx
Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda. By Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx. Pp. 198. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. £13.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 521 67687 8 (pbk)
How Should Creationism and Intelligent Design be Dealt with in the Classroom: Creationism and Intelligent Design in the Classroom
Journal Article How Should Creationism and Intelligent Design be Dealt with in the Classroom? Get access Michael J Reiss Michael J Reiss Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK Correspondence: Michael J. Reiss, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK. E-mail:[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Phil…
Adolescents Care but Don’t Feel Responsible for Farm Animal Welfare
Adolescents are the next generation of consumers with the potential to raise standards of farm animal welfare—to their satisfaction—if their preferences and concerns are translated into accurate market drivers and signals. There are no published data about adolescent views of farm animal welfare to allow meaningful design, implementation, and evaluation of educational strategies to improve consideration of—and behavior toward—farm animals. Knowle…
Qualified, But Not Choosing STEM at University: Unconscious Influences on Choice of Study
Religious and sexual identities: A multi-faith exploration of young adults
The Millennium Development Goals Agenda: Constraints of Culture, Economy, and Empowerment in Influencing the Social Mobility of Pakistani Girls on Mathematics and Science Related Higher Education Cour…
Students' intentions to study non‐compulsory mathematics: The importance of how good you think you are
Increasing the number of students who study mathematics once it is no longer compulsory remains a priority for E ngland. A longitudinal cohort from E ngland (1085 students) was surveyed at Years 10 and 12. Students' self‐beliefs of ability influenced their GCSE mathematics grades and their intended and actual mathematics subject‐choices; the degree of under‐confidence or over‐confidence related to these self‐beliefs was also influential. Addition…
“I Fall Asleep in Class … But Physics Is Fascinating”: The Use of Large-Scale Longitudinal Data to Explore the Educational Experiences of Aspiring Girls in Mathematics and Physics
Sex, ethics, and young people
Sex, Ethics, and Young People is a valuable addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s series on Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture, edited by Patricia Clough and Danielle Egan. It presents t
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