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O'Toole, John Mitchell; Freestone, Margaret; McKoy, Karina S.; Duckworth, Brian – Education Sciences, 2018
All reviews are selective and this one restricts itself to content analysis of articles published between the beginning of 2005 and the end of 2014 in the premier, generalist, Science-education, research journals: International Journal of Science Education; Journal of Research in Science Teaching; Research in Science Education; Science Education,…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Science Education, Trend Analysis, Content Analysis
Schalin, Jay – John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, 2014
North Carolina State University's general education program is ambitious, seeking to accomplish a great many things. Yet its implementation is not aligned with its ambitions, because it demands too little of students. This gap between intentions and implementation can cause students to end up with anti-intellectual attitudes, poor writing and…
Descriptors: General Education, State Universities, Thinking Skills, Required Courses
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Galamba, Arthur – Science & Education, 2013
This paper scrutinizes the contribution of Romulo de Carvalho to the development of the Portuguese science curriculum, arguing that it was critically informed by his lifetime inclination to the humanities. It focuses on a particular historical event: the 1948 chemistry programme for the secondary school "Liceus". The paper briefly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Educational Policy, Science History
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Lynning, Kristine Hays – Science & Education, 2007
In the late 1950s, when a new curriculum for the Danish upper secondary school was under construction, the reform debates on science were strongly concerned with the scarcity of technologically and scientifically educated labour, and thus relations between science, technology and welfare were stressed. Simultaneously however, the relationship…
Descriptors: Humanism, Humanities, Science Curriculum, Case Studies
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Launhardt, Julie; Kahn, Paul – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1992
Uses of Intermedia, computer software designed to help instructors express relationships between concepts in the sciences and humanities, are discussed. The kinds of educational problems Intermedia was intended to address are described, some materials created using it are surveyed, and experiences with Intermedia in various educational contexts…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Concept Formation
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Harris, Richard; Ratcliffe, Mary – Curriculum Journal, 2005
This project was designed to examine the feasibility of using a "collapsed day" to explore socio-scientific issues relating to genes and genetic engineering in secondary schools by enabling science and humanities staff to collaborate. It was believed that science staff would have expertise in promoting understanding of genetics and humanities…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Humanities, Genetics, Engineering
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Rapple, Brendan A. – College Teaching, 1995
This article argues that the sciences and the humanities are experiencing a growing mutual isolation and polarization in the college curriculum, and that an integration of the two is needed. Arts and humanities course developers are urged to incorporate elements of science instruction, including the scientific method, history and philosophy of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Core Curriculum
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Lavonen, Jari; Angell, Carl; Bymen, Reijo; Henriksen, Ellen K.; Koponen, Ismo T. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
The purpose of the study was to determine the typical teaching methods used in upper secondary physics in Finland and Norway and how students would like to study physics. Moreover, the further aim of seeing how certain background variables may explain students' desire to study their chosen specialist subject, physics or social science…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics
Heny, Frank – 1987
The goals of liberal education are to deepen the understanding of the nature of humankind and of the human condition. In the last half century, fundamental changes have occurred in perceptions of how the human species relates to the rest of the universe, due to developments in science and the creation of the cognitive sciences. There is now the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Educational Objectives, Grammar, Higher Education
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Ruthven, Kenneth; Hennessy, Sara; Deaney, Rosemary – Computers and Education, 2005
Drawing on evidence from lesson observations, teacher interviews and project reports, this paper examines the pedagogical perspectives and strategies of teachers working to incorporate use of Internet resources and associated ICT tools into humanities, social studies and science lessons in English secondary schools. The eight teachers were…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Internet, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries