Australian Education Review

Title

Re-Imagining Science Education : Engaging Students in Science for Australia's Future

Authors

Russell Tytler

Publication Date

5-15-2007

Comments

(Australian education review ; n.51)
Includes a Foreword by Dr Jim Peacock, Australia's Chief Scientist.
See also: AER 51 cover

Abstract

This issue of AER calls for major curriculum reform, arguing that the time has passed for tinkering around the edges of a science curriculum that belongs to the past.

Using research presented at ACER's Research Conference 2006, Boosting Science Learning - what will it take? as a base for a broad and intense review of the literature, the review calls for a 're-imagined' science education that is focused not only on preparing future scientists, but also on engaging all young people in science.