CRME: Purposes, principles, processes and politics - lessons from an unfinished quest

Andrew Hunt

For fifty years we have struggled to devise a science curriculum to meet the needs of all learners during the compulsory years of secondary schooling. Most young people do not take up careers in science, yet the tendency is for our educational system to revert to ‘science for scientist’, rather than to adopt a pattern of science education that matches the interests of the majority of students.

This seminar will explore the contributions of practitioners, curriculum designers and scholars to the work of a small selection of significant curriculum projects in science and draw out the lessons from the successes and failures of these initiatives. The examples chosen will illustrate design challenges across the range from individual lessons to the whole science curriculum.

Speaker biography:

Andrew Hunt was a science teacher for 20 years. In that time he contributed, as writer and senior examiner, to the Nuffield Chemistry projects. Subsequently he led a series of curriculum initiatives for the Nuffield Foundation and the Association for Science Education. Andrew is author and editor of a variety of Chemistry textbooks and multimedia resources. He is chair of examiners for the AQA A-level Science in Society course. He is science consultant to the eLibrary of the National STEM Centre.

This talk will take place in Room B46, Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus 

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