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The Growth of Science Education Organisations in the Old and New South Africa

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This chapter traces the history of two key science education organisations which emerged in the early post-apartheid period in South Africa. One is a research organisation, the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology (SAARMSTE) and the other a practitioner association, the South African Association of Science and Technology educators (SAASTE). SAASTE is also compared to its sister association in mathematics education, The Association of Mathematics Educators of South Africa AMESA and its roots in peoples’ education.

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  1. Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Marissa Rollnick

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  1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Femi S. Otulaja

  2. University of the Western Cape, South Africa

    Meshach B. Ogunniyi

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Rollnick, M. (2017). The Growth of Science Education Organisations in the Old and New South Africa. In: Otulaja, F.S., Ogunniyi, M.B. (eds) The World of Science Education. Cultural and Historical Perpectives on Science Education: Handbooks. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-089-9_3

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