The Curriculum of School Science

In the 1960s school curriculum development took on a quite new form. Particularly for science education, many large projects were established to produce what usually turned out to be a 'package ' of curriculum to be implemented by teachers in the classroom. There is currently another reform of science curriculum in progress internationally. The notions of how to effect curriculum change have altered substantially and less emphasis is now being given to the production of 'packages'. Five sources of influence concerned science teachers, academic scientists, political and economic comparisons, theories of teaching and learning and philosophical ideas about science and science education are obvious in both periods although their concerns and directions for reform have changed