Explains the benefits of integrating citizenship into science and introduces two citizenship units developed with the cooperation of the Association for Science Education (ASE) and the Wellcome Trust. (YDS)

Focuses on changes taking place in the teaching of science as part of general education. Contends that the new science curriculum should be focusing on the utilization of science technology for public welfare and human benefit. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/YDS)

Seeks to address concerns Shiland raised in a prior article published in Science Education 1998, 82(5), 615-617 regarding the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Discusses the failures of NSES and the consequences related to the cognitive abilities of teachers and students. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/YDS)

Science controversy has the potential to reinforce students' understanding of important biological concepts as well as helping students forge connections between concepts they may have previously seen disparate. Science controversy has the potential to help students make cross-disciplinary connections and therefore it should become an integral…

Reviews the recently established curriculum for teaching chemistry in the Soviet Union. Examines guidelines for teaching methodology. Also looks at basic pupil knowledge and skills in several different areas of chemistry. (RKM)

Offers perspectives on the importance and purposes of science education. Emphasis is given to understandings and applications of scientific knowledge. Integration of the science disciplines and an interdisciplinary approach in science instruction are recommended. (ML)

While ecology is usually regarded as a subject/topic in six-form biology teaching, it is recommended that it be treated as a joint theme with physiology throughout the course. This involves a full integration of ecological concepts into other topics with the abolition of ecology as a discrete entity. (Author/JN)

Discusses from the physicist's point of view the connection between biology and physics and the usefulness of physical laws for understanding biological processes. Discusses these fields of research in secondary school science: molecular science, regulation, statistics and information, corrosion and evolution, chance and necessity, and…

Regardless of how easy a course is made for nonscience majors, few attempts have been made to use students' abilities within the academic context to enhance their appreciation of science. The teaching of nonscience majors must be viewed by the science teacher as important as the teaching of science majors. (MLW)

Discusses chemistry in the National Science Education Standards with regard to chemistry teaching, content, student achievement, educational standards, curriculum, interdisciplinary approach, and inquiry. Presents a model as an attempt to understand the level of chemistry in the standards. (JRH)

Discusses the history of the relationship between science education and environmental education in Australian and international contexts and suggests that--given the on-going resistance to environmental education in schools, the static nature of science education practices, and declining student interest in studying traditional science…

Presents opinions regarding the development of integrated science curricula that provide an interaction between scientific education and social problems. Discusses philosophy regarding the relationship between education and the socioeconomic development in modern countries. (CS)

Endorses the view that environmental concerns should feature prominently in the content and activities in science education at school level. Proposes a multidisciplinary approach to biology education and reports on a self-instructional skill training course on methods for teaching environmental education. (CS)

Proposes a science-oriented general education core, stressing the importance of serious scientific study in understanding contemporary human existence. Describes the four courses comprising the core, which use the evolutionary process as the unifying concept for the study of physics, astronomy, geology, chemistry, biology, anthropology,…

Develops a rationale for integrating oceanography and marine education in land-oriented curriculum at the secondary level. Examples of topics with a multidisciplinary approach are described in the areas of acoustics and music, aquaria, archeology, art, astronomy, literature, careers, ecology, gastronomy, geology, and topics on various aquatic…