Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 2, Issue 1, Article 10 (Jun., 2001) Peter J FENSHAM Integration: An approach to Science in primary schooling Next

*This paper will be presented on 12 July, 2001 in the Science Education Symposium: Meeting the Challenges of Science Curriculum Reform as organised by the Science Department of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Contents

• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
 
• 1960 To 1990
• Background
• Support from the system
• Glimmers of new integrations
• The 1990s
• New status for primary science
• The idea of curriculum focus
• Thematic integrtion
• MID 1990s - on
• More demands on the curriculum
• New opportunities for integration
• INTEGRATION WITH LANGUAGE
• Science as narrative story
• Science as discourse
• Integration with Number
• Integration : in whose interest?
• REFERENCES

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