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Concept OF Science Education and timelines
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CONCEPT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
Science education focuses on teaching, learning, and understanding science.
Teaching science involves developing ways to effectively teach science. This means
exploring pedagogical theories and models to help teachers teach scientific concepts
and processes effectively.
Learning science includes both pedagogy and the most interesting aspect, which is
helping students understand and love science.
Understanding science implies developing and applying science-process skills and
using science literacy in understanding the natural world and activities in everyday
life.
John Dewey (2001), delving further into the discourse on science education,
emphasized the significance of using the natural environment to teach children. To supply a
plethora of meaning through social interactions and thought, nature must therefore provide
its physical impulses. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that science education is
crucial. In fact, according to Marx (1994), one of the most significant academic courses in
the future will be science.
Science education is justified by the enormous body of knowledge that has been
accumulated in this field and that equips people to live in a technologically and scientifically
advanced society. Knight (1986) called this time the age of science, and science education
equips people with the information and abilities they need to survive in it and create
citizens who will advance science's objectives in society (Tilghman, 2005). So, schools have a
huge duty to create a science culture.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES
1960s
Printing and distribution of science textbooks by the United States Operations Mission-
National Economic Council (USOM-NEC) Project and UP Science Teaching Center
1970s
Teaching of Integrated Science and Health in Schools
Development of the Elementary Learning Continuum (ELC)
1980s
Introduction of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) approach to teaching
Development of science and technology textbooks for secondary schools