Challenges of science education

The lecturers at this forum aimed to identify directions to be taken in science education that will endow citizens with scientific literacy. The general failure of education to achieve this goal was emphasized as, all too often, science education today is viewed as a means of creating a scientific elite and of academic selection.

 

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Subject(s)Science
Age11-14, 14-16
Published1999
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Shelf referenceA 507.1 COU
ISN/ISBN9789287140951
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8bbj

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