In light of such accumulated evidence one might ask: Why would students want to
engage with school science in the first place? The question anticipates a mission of
SSI school science.
With each new decade of innovation toward a more relevant school science, science
education researchers have became more sophisticated and less naïve in both practical
and theoretical ways, much to the benefit of those few students lucky enough to have
been participants in their projects. However, this evolution has often been challenged
by a country’s or school system’s culture of school science. The importance of this
observation is its implication that SSI innovations are first and foremost about
changing the culture of conventional school science