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Collaborating to reform science education in context: Issues, challenges, and benefits
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
Within recent times, the call for collaboration among stakeholders in education is made with increasing frequency. In current thinking, community building and collaboration are posited as critical elements in school reform. ...
Collaborating to reform science education in context: Issues, challenges, and benefits
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2009)
Within recent times, the call for collaboration among stakeholders in education has been made with increasing frequency. In current thinking, community building and collaboration are posited as critical elements in school ...
Why Science Education?
(Daily Express, 2005-04)
This article reflects on the development of science education in Trinidad and Tobago, as demonstrated in the movement away from a traditional focus on the production of a small number of students destined to pursue higher ...
Science Education for Sustainable Development, Pt. 1
(Daily Express, 2005)
With respect to sustainable development, Pt. 1 of this paper identifies one potential goal of science education as being the building of human capacity with respect to the management of resources for the betterment of ...
Improving practice in primary science education through participatory action research [PowerPoint presentation]
(2013-07-08)
Continuing professional development (CPD) is considered essential for teachers and teacher educators to improve their practice. Models of CPD, such as those that involve action research, which respond to the local needs ...
Lower secondary science teaching and learning: An inventory of science apparatus and materials: Summary report
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2004)
This is a summary of the results of a survey of the apparatus and materials to support lower secondary science in 54 of the 115 schools that existed at the time the research was undertaken. The sample reflects approximately ...
Educating to Build Bridges
(2013-05-17)
Authentic and Relevant Science Education at Train Line School through the Use of Science, Technology and Society (STS) Education?
(2014-01-23)
This study sought to determine the probable impact of a relevance-based approach to the teaching of primary science, through the employment of Science, Technology and Society (STS) education, on students’ perceptions of ...