Abrahams, Ian (2007) An Unrealistic Image of Science. School Science Review, 88 (324). pp. 119-122. ISSN 0036-6811
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Abstract
Many UK secondary schools (ages 11-18) host Open Days for pupils in their final year of primary school education (age 10). At these events science teachers try, through the judicious use of a select number of practical tasks, to portray science as being a fun, exciting and essentially a "hands on" activity. Whilst this approach generates short-term situational interest amongst pupils it is ultimately an unrealistic, and arguably unsustainable, image of science.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Image, Practical Work, Unsustainable |
| Subjects: | Departments > Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2009 13:51 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/259 |
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