The Trial of an Innovative Science Programme for Preservice Primary Teachers in Fiji

Title
The Trial of an Innovative Science Programme for Preservice Primary Teachers in Fiji
Publication Date
1997
Author(s)
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Lucas, Keith B
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1080/1359866970250308
UNE publication id
une:22770
Abstract
Science teaching in Fiji is often very formalistic and didactic. This is in part due to an extremely competitive examination system, but work by Muralidhar (1989, An exploratory study of a science curriculum in action: basic science in Fiji, Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Monash University) has also indicated that at the primary and lower secondary levels teachers' content knowledge of physical science was often lacking. This in turn impacted on the teachers' confidence, and often resulted in a teacher-centred approach in which there was little deviation from the set text. This article outlines an innovative science programme which was developed and trialled with Fijian preservice primary teachers in an attempt to improve their content knowledge of physical science. It also reports some of the student teachers' views on the various teaching strategies employed during the programme.
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Citation
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 25(3), p. 325-343
ISSN
1469-2945
1359-866X
Start page
325
End page
343

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