| Description |
xvi, 265 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Looking at the Past Fifty Years -- Contemporary reform of Science Education -- Searching for Scientific Literacy -- Defining Scientific Literacy -- Establishing National Standards -- Creating a Vision of Scientific Literacy -- Enriching the Science Curriculum -- Improving Instruction -- Implementing a Standards-Based Systemic Reform -- The Year 2000 and Beyond |
| Summary |
Achieving Scientific Literacy offers a broad vision for improving science education that is at times historical and philosophical and also concrete and practical. Bybee maintains that although the rhetoric of reform is national, actual reform must occur at state and local levels. His book addresses the critical challenge of transforming national standards into individual classroom practices, with the aim being to develop greater coherence and consistency in science education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index |
| Subject |
Science -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Literacy -- United States.
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| LC no. |
96045221 |
| ISBN |
0435071343 |
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