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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 18, Issue 2, Article 15 (Dec., 2017) |
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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 18, Issue 2, Article 15 (Dec., 2017) |
The authors thus suggest that an immediate necessary first step should be to conduct a large scale study on scientific literacy levels of citizens in Fiji. The findings then can be used by curriculum leaders to guide policy decisions to inform the curriculum and subsequently impact instructional leadership that explicitly promotes the development of scientific literacy.
Finally, it is important to carry out an analysis of text types used in schools in Fiji. There is a need for serious conversation about the kinds of texts we most want students to read, write, use, and critique because not doing so will constitutes a missed opportunity to turn as many students as possible on to literacy (Duke, 2000, p. 205).
A literate society is the goal of education in Fiji and many Pacific Island Countries and confining the boundaries of literacy education on the shoulders of language experts alone will have detrimental repercussions in the future especially, when Fiji’s and other Pacific Island Countries medium of instruction is English which is not the mother tongue and the demands for understanding, interpreting and using multiple sources of information on a daily basis in inevitable for improving the quality of life in this scientifically and technologically driven society.
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