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ERIC Number: EJ476659
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Do Middle School Life Science Textbooks Provide a Balance of Scientific Literacy Themes?
Chiappetta, Eugene L.; And Others
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v30 n7 p787-97 Sep 1993
From an analysis of five life science textbooks it was found that they stressed two aspects of scientific literacy--science as a body of knowledge and science as a way of investigating. Practically no text was devoted to science as a way of thinking, and little was devoted to the interaction of science, technology, and society (STS). (PR)
Descriptors: Biology, Elementary Education, Inquiry, Junior High Schools, Science and Society, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy, Textbook Research
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Science Education Research