期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Literacy through Science
电子版ISSN：1934-6670
出版年度：2001
卷号：1
出版社：University of California, Davis
摘要：With the emerging emphasis on standards in science education comes the potential to open science curricula to rich and inclusive learning experiences or to confine science curricula to narrow factoid approaches. This paper examines the emerging definition of science literacy from the authors of the science standards, from policy makers’ desire to standardize, and from inclusive education perspectives. Education practices such as standardized testing and the selection of content in textbooks limits and restricts science curricula. In a call for change, we propose designing science curricula in light of inquiry learning, cultural and local relevance, an inclusive approach, and a real world setting that brings personal benefit to the learner and leads to science literacy for all. Examples of science curricula in schools in the southwest are described to illustrate this understanding of education that leads to a new vision of science literacy.
