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The training of science teachers in the peoples Republic of China

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Students from Asian societies have generally done well in the sciences in Western universities. Many factors have been invoked to explain their success. This paper is a study of one possible factor—the training of teachers for schools, specifically as investigated from first-hand observation by the author from Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, China, and its affiliated primary and secondary schools.

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  1. Department of Physics-Earth Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, 06050, New Britain, Connecticut

    Sadanand Nanjundiah

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Nanjundiah, S. The training of science teachers in the peoples Republic of China. J Sci Educ Technol 5, 161–165 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01575156

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