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By Rita Chawla-Duggan, Christopher J. Pole

This examine specializes in the nationwide Curriculum and its influence on basic instructing and studying. incorporated is a glance at overseas practices, a evaluate of academic reform, and a debate upon professionalism and first university educating.

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The second missing item is an explicit statement of the purpose of teaching for an understanding of ideas about scientific evidence. As in Alexander’s (1995) value dimension, the role of an understanding of evidence as a central part of ‘education for life’ needs to be made clear so that those concerned with science education can locate it within a coherent view of the curriculum. This second item may be more important than the first because if teachers acquire this view, then the content will take on more significance.

1995) ‘Teaching and learning in the preschool period’, in HUGHES, M. ) Teaching and Learning in Times of Change, Oxford, Blackwell. ROBERTS, G. (1989) Teaching Children to Read and Write (Chapter 4: ‘Conscious efforts to read’), Oxford, Blackwell. , GUBERMAN, S. and GEARHART, M. (1987) ‘Social processes in early number development’, SRCD monograph, serial no. 216, 52 (2). SULZBY, E. D. ) Psychological Bases for Early Education, NY, Wiley. WYNN, K. (1990) ‘Children’s understanding of counting’, Cognition, 36, pp.

WYNN, K. (1990) ‘Children’s understanding of counting’, Cognition, 36, pp. 155–93. 32 3 Primary Science in the Mid-1990s: Grounds for Optimism Richard Gott and Sandra Duggan Introduction One of the main and, to some, the most exciting impacts of the National Curriculum in the UK has been its effect on science teaching in primary schools. Prior to the National Curriculum, introduced in 1989, science education was left for the most part to secondary schools. Provision at the primary level was somewhat haphazard, ranging from little more than nature study in many schools to some inspired science teaching in others.

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