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What Is Scientific Literacy and Why Do We Need It
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hodson, Derek |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | The history of science education is easily traced through the slogans, catchphrases and rallying calls that have come and gone: “Children as scientists”, “Process, not product”, “Science for all”, “Children making sense of the world”, and so on. In recent years, the call for increased levels of scientific literacy has assumed centrestage in science education rhetoric in several parts of the world and organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 1989, 1993), the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC, 1997) and UNESCO (1993) have used it to frame major efforts to reform the science curriculum. Its prominence in the contemporary science education literature prompts the two questions in my title. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.kcvs.ca/martin/EdCI/literature/literacy/hodson.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
