Science education and development in the Caribbean: Desired directions
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Dec. 1978
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This article defines some goals of science education for the Caribbean and their implications for teaching. It reviews regional efforts at science curriculum development since the 1960s, and stresses the need for curriculum development for the primary levels, and for the development of textbooks and resource materials that reflect new approaches to science. It views the aims of higher education in science to be fostering and maintaining attitudes of scientific inquiry, the production of specialists, and the eradication of scientific illiteracy