Introduction (David Geelan and Kim Nichols) -- Part I: Learning About Wicked Problems -- Chapter 1. Climate change education: Simple or complex? The impact of culture on students' willingness to reduce global warming (Keith Skamp, Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet) -- Chapter 2. Investigating students' self-efficacy and self-concept in science through collaborative inquiry: Unpacking the 'hidden' complexity within data (Debra Panizzon, Bruce White, Katrina Elliott and Alex Semmens) -- Chapter 3. Using Socioscientific Issues to Promote the Critical Thinking Skills of Year 10 Science Students in Diverse School Contexts (Vaille Dawson And Grady Venville) -- Part II: Teacher Preparation and Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers -- Chapter 4. Chicken wings and a deflated football: Metaphors of the complexity of learning to teach science and mathematics out-of-field (Linda Hobbs and Frances Quinn) -- Chapter 5. Teacher Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers (Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach) -- Chapter 6. Exploring the Nature, and Teachers' Understanding, of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS, Grades R - 12): Navigating the Changing Landscape of Science Education through the Curriculum Assessment and Policy Statement (CAPS) in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Julius Ajayi Eyitayo) -- Part III: Making the Complexities of Physical Sciences Accessible -- Chapter 7. Teaching electricity to Year 6 primary students using representational pedagogies: from simple circuits to complex ideas (Peter Hubber and Christine Preston) -- Chapter 8. Complexity in primary children's representations of Science and Mathematics concepts (Christine Preston, Jennifer Way and Eleni Smyrnis) -- Chapter 9. Making the complex history of chemistry accessible: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928), chemical researcher, administrator, educator, and student of chemistry's history (William P. Palmer) -- Chapter 10. Can the complexities of developing students' literacy skills around physical science concepts benefit from a singular approach to teaching academic vocabulary? (Chris Nielsen) -- Index.