Critical Thinking in Biology and Environmental Education: Facing Challenges in a Post-Truth World

Blanca Puig is assistant professor in science education at the Faculty of Education, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain. Her research interest focusses on the analysis of argumentation and the practice of critical thinking in the context of socio-scientific instruction. She is the main investigator of RODA (Reasoning, Argumentation and Discourse) research group and the leader of a National project on critical thinking and epistemic practices in contexts related with the post-truth era . She serves on the ERIDOB academic committee and as associate editor in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching board.

Maria Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre is Ad Honorem Professor of science education in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her research program explores the development of argumentation and critical thinking in the science classroom. Author of highly cited publications, her h Index is 40. She has received awards in the field, the last one NARST Distinguished Contribution to Science Education through Research award, in 2019. She serves on the board of Science Education and other WoS journals.

Under the pen name of Marilar Aleixandre, she has also published fiction and poetry; some books and a sample of her work in short stories and poems is collected in anthologies in English.