Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Eshach, Haim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Classics in Science Education ; 1
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Teaching.; Child development.; Learning & Instruction.; Science Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Childhood Education.

When it comes to science, many of today's children experience narrow and impoverished learning opportunities, which, as professor Judah Schwartz writes in the preface to this book, lead ulitmately to a mere caricature of science. One source of the problem is the wrong—terribly wrong—belief that...