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ABSTRACTS:
In a knowledge
intensive era, changes in science and technology, in society and in the
economy have started the efforts by nearly all the developed countries
worldwide to bring about significant progress in science education. With
describing scientific literacy, students are expected to have some intellectual
skills for the utilization of science knowledge. These skills are associated
with solving problems, forming judgment, making sound decisions, evaluating
short and long term risks recognizing the influence of using science knowledge
in personal-social and social-civic issues. Acquiring all these skills
could be possible through understanding the nature of science in the process
of teaching and learning science. Policies for improving the quality of
science education in the desired direction should be adopted in the process
of accomplishing these goals. In this respect, the US is known to follow
certain standards in the content of National Science Education Standards
project for all activities aimed at improving science education for a
few decades. Nearly fifty years of history of science education is reviewed
in this article. The aim of this short view to describe improving science
education curriculum in the world and Turkey and to clarify the NSES project
in terms of objectives briefly. At the end of this article some recommendations
are made to improve the quality of science educational studies in Turkey
paralleling developments in other developed countries.
KEY WORDS: Approaches
for improving education, Science projects, Scientific educational standards,
Science education curriculum
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