IDC411: School science curriculum and textbooks

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Course Outline

• Timeline of curriculum ideas in science:
  • The perspective of curriculum of school science education in India. Kothari commission, 1975 Minimum Learning Continuum, 1975/1988 Core Curriculum, 2000 National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005/2006 NCF. NCERT position paper of science.
  • Understanding the principles that guide syllabus and the challenges. Decision regarding information, concept, skill, reasoning and imagination.
  • Balancing of concepts and information. Its challenges.
• (a) Teaching and learning of science and relationship with language.
  (b) Teaching and learning of science and relationship with Mathematics.
• Tracing the development of a series of concepts from class 6th to 10th. For example: (a) Force, energy, power (b) Cell (C) Physiological processes (d) Oxidation, reducting (e) Molecule, atom and valency
• Analysing the construction of chapter in science and the consideration in choices with possible alternatives.
• What is a good science text book? Characteristics and elements.
• Designing worksheets and exercises, nature, purpose, development
• Improtance of historical develpment fo certain ideas and their integration into the text.

Recommended Reading

• Akker, Jan Van Den (1988). 'Curriculum Section 4' in B.J. Fraser and K.G.Tobin(end), International Handbook of Science Education, Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publisher. (421-447).
• Dewey, John (2014), Democracy and Education, Delhi: Aakar Books.
• Dewey, John (1966), The Child and the Curricula: The School and Society, Chicago: The University of Chicago press.
• Duschi, Richard A. (1990), Restructuring Science Education: The Importance of Theories and Their Development, New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Edgar Jenkins (2007), School science: a questionable constuct?, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39:3, 265-282. DOI: 10.1080/00220270701245295 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220270701245295
• Small Science Textbooks, Workbooks and Teacher's Books for Classes 1-5, Mumbai: HBSCE.
• Kumar, K. (1983), Science Education and Development, New Series No. 2. New Delhi: CSDS.
• Linn, Marcia c. (1998), Educational Technology Section 3 in B.J. Fraser and K.G. Tobin (eds), International Handbook of Science Education Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publisher.265-294.
• Matthews, Michael R. (1998), History and Philosophy of Science Section 9 in B.J. Fraser and K.G.Tobin (eds), International Handbook of Science Education, Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publisher. 981-999.
• N.C.E.R.T. (2000), National Curriculum Framework, New Delh N.C.E.R.T.
• N.C.E.R.T. (2005), National Curriculum Framework, New Delhi N.C.E.R.T.
• Report (1966), National Education Commission 1964-66. New Delhi: Government of India.
• Saxena, Sadhna (2006), Questions of Epistemology: Re-evaluating Constructivism and the NCF 2005, Contemporary Education Dialogue.4(2) 52-71.
• Tobin, Kenneth, Jane Butler Kahle and baryy J Fraser (1990), Windows into Science Classrooms: Problems Associated With Higher Level Cognitive Learning, London: The Falmer Press.