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In the 1970s as the first disappointments from the implementation phase of the great curriculum reforms became known, it was noted, on both sides of the Atlantic, that these curriculum development projects had been undertaken, as if science education took place in a political vacuum. The critical analyses of these projects, and their impact on schools and science education, by persons like Apple, Gintis, and Stake and Easley in the USA, and Young, Waring, and Jenkins in Britain disabused this naivety with a vengeance.
Teachers, I’m asking you to put down what you have been doing already, because the nation has another purpose for you.
J.J. Schwab as quoted by Rod Fawns, Australia
I’ve always seen the function of science education research as being to somehow influence the way society is to evolve.
Fawns, Australia
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Fensham, P.J. (2004). Politics and Science Education. In: Defining an Identity. Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0175-5_13
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