Some Reflections on the Challenge Facing Science Educators in Fiji

Title
Some Reflections on the Challenge Facing Science Educators 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
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Manchester, School of Education
Place of publication
United Kingdom
UNE publication id
une:23501
Abstract
Science and technology are promoted as major contributors to national development (Dunne & Rennie, 1990). Consequently improved science education has been placed high on the agenda of tasks to be tackled in many developing countries (Kahn, 1990), although progress has often been limited. In fact, Elkana (1981) claims that the enormous investment in teaching science in developing countries has basically failed. This rather depressing view is echoed by other authors, for example, Lewin (1990) who comments that although today far more children in developing countries study science than previously, the evidence suggests that the great majority do not master more than a small proportion of the goals set for them.
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Citation
Journal of Practice in Education for Development, 3(2), p. 67-69
ISSN
1355-3097
Start page
67
End page
69

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