Significance of Nuffield Secondary Science: Focusing on the Educational System and History of Science Education in England

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  • ナフィールド中等科学の意義に関する一検討 --開発当時の教育制度と科学教育論に着目して--
  • ナフィールド チュウトウ カガク ノ イギ ニ カンスル イチ ケントウ : カイハツ トウジ ノ キョウイク セイド ト カガク キョウイクロン ニ チャクモク シテ

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Several studies have documented that the curriculums developed by the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project were courses not only for future scientists but for all students. Also, the curriculums included scientific ideas from modern science research. However, these studies investigated only GCE Olevel courses, such as Nuffield Physics, which were taken mainly by grammar school students. The aim of this study was to understand the other aspects of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project. This thesis seeks to investigate and explain the role of Nuffield Secondary Science when this course was developed and published. Nuffield Secondary Science was the course for students who were unlikely to take O-level science, and was less well known in Japan. This study identified the following characteristics of Nuffield Secondary Science: (1) it created an opportunity for teachers to reconsider the content of their teaching in terms of "fundamental issues" which are likely to be of considerable significance for students; and (2) it made it possible for all students to experience the principles and essence of science.

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