Science/Technology/Society [microform] : Addressing the Real Problems in Science Education / Robert E. Yager
- Bib ID:
- 5559285
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Yager, Robert E
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993
- 5 p.
- ISSN:
- 0547-4205
- Summary:
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As the nation's schools respond to calls for improved science education, educators are faced with the challenge of making what is learned in the classroom applicable to what is happening in society. This newsletter article discusses constructive and erroneous definitions of science, identifies several national reform efforts in the area of science education, and describes four exemplary science programs, at high schools in Iowa, Wisconsin, Washington State, and New Jersey, respectively. It is concluded that the science encountered in schools has no meaning in the students' regular lives and therefore seems unrelated and useless to them. Science/Technology/Society, a reform effort headquartered at Penn State University, is an effort to cast learning into a real world context where students bring their experiences into the classroom, where students ask questions and find their own solutions and explanations, and where teachers guide students rather than force them along a path. (PR)
- Notes:
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- Availability: National Association of Secondary School Principals, 1904 Association Dr., Reston, VA 22091-1537.
- Administrators.
- Practitioners.
- NASSP Curriculum Report, v22 n3 Jan 1993.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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