The Future of the Science Curriculum

This collection explores the lessons we need to learn from past curriculum reforms and reforms that have happened elsewhere internationally to develop the science curriculum of the future. The focus of many of these articles are Future Curriculum Frameworks which ASE contributes to as part of an Education Policy Alliance

Educators need to be involved and engaged in these developments towards a meaningful and coherent curricula that supports science education for all students.

 

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Discussion and conclusions about the essential understanding in science that all students should acquire during the compulsory years of school.
Wynne Harlen

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Reviews of the curriculum, and the science  curriculum in particular, have become a regular feature of the educational landscape in the UK.

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An introduction to the work of the UK's three main professional bodies for science on developing curriculum frameworks.

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The Royal Society of Biology is developing a framework for a coherent 5-19 biology curriculum, aiming to inform curriculum developers and ensure th

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The Royal Society of Chemistry is developing a framework for a relevant and coherent chemistry curriculum for all students.

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The Institute of Physics is developing a framework that will give school students a rewarding and productive experience of physics and lasting skil

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The ASE's President-Elect draws together the implications of the work carried out by the three professional bodies for science to date and highligh

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Twenty years after the Nuffield Foundation's 'Beyond 2000' report, is there still room for its vision of scientific literacy for all, and what are

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How are the new science standards adopted in the USA in 2014 for ages 5-18 innovative, and do they have implications for science teaching and learn

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Efforts to introduce a balanced science curriculum from the mid-19th century to the present day.

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