Opinion: Towards a viable response to COVID-19 from the science education community

By Justin Dillon, Lucy Avraamidou

Issue 283 | Page 20 | Published Feb 2021

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This article looks at three fundamental questions arising from how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on school science teaching: how well has the science curriculum prepared the world's public for COVID-19; how much science education should be online from now on; and what pedagogies might we need to turn to in the future?

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