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Asia-Pacific
Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 2, Issue 1, Foreword (Jun.,
2001)
Peter FENSHAM Science as Story: Science Education by Story
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Asia-Pacific
Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 2, Issue 1, Foreword (Jun.,
2001)
Peter FENSHAM Science as Story: Science Education by Story
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Beyond 2000: Science education for the futureBeyond 2000: Science education for the future (Eds. R Millar and J Osborne, King's College London) is a futuristic report on school science education in Britain that was launched at the Royal Society in 1998. In it, a group of leading science educators in that country tried to project their thinking beyond the next minor revision of the National Science Curriculum to set some goals and a vision that might lift curriculum thinking beyond the immediate details of this topic or that one. It is interesting to read that Story has a quite central role in their vision.
The curriculum needs to be presented clearly and simply, and its contents need to be seen to follow from the statement of aims. Scientific knowledge can best be presented in the curriculum as a number of key 'explanatory stories'. (p 2014)
This is a recommendation well worth exploring by any curriculum authority, and by those responsible for science teacher education, if they are seriously interested in improving the quality of school science teaching and learning.
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