Better science: making it relevant to young people - curriculum guide 3
Making it Relevant to Young People was the third in a series of 12 booklets published by Heinemann and the Association for Science Education to explore the issues arising from moving towards a broad and balanced science education for all young people. The main purpose of this booklet was to respond to concerns, current at the time, such as:
*the questionable relevance to most youngsters of the contexts in which much science is taught
*the over-emphasis in many science curricula on scientific knowledge and concepts at the expense of scientific processes and enquiry skills, and of learning about science as a human activity
*the tendency in much school science to emphasise the accumulation of scientific facts and concepts rather than learning how to deploy these in solving a variety of problems.
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