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Practical work in science: an account of an inquiry sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation into the nature and purpose of practical work in school science teaching in England and Wales.
Practical Work in School Science was a report giving an account of an inquiry sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation into the nature and purpose of practical work in school science teaching in England and Wales. The working group was chaired by J F Kerr and the report was published in 1963.
The report noted that in England and Wales, more than in most other countries, science teaching was notable for the special importance which teachers attached to practical work. The inquiry set out to discover what were the particular ends which teachers of science considered should be achieved by demonstration 'experiments' and by individual work at the school laboratory benches.
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