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Emerging issues concerning the future directions of Australian senior science education: The Queensland experience

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Australia's changing political, social and economic agendas have triggered a critical analysis of school curriculum. Part of this consideration has been concern over the future of science education within the context of senior schooling. Following the completion of the Senior Science Future Directions Project commissioned by the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies, fifteen issues were identified. These issues, grouped by the needs of the science disciplines, society and the individual student, are discussed with the view of understanding the future design of senior science syllabuses.

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  1. Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland, 4072, St Lucia, Q.

    Donna Satterthwait (Lecturer),  Jim Butler (Senior Lecturer) &  Warren Beasley (Senior Lecturer)

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  1. Donna Satterthwait
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Satterthwait, D., Butler, J. & Beasley, W. Emerging issues concerning the future directions of Australian senior science education: The Queensland experience. Research in Science Education 23, 252–258 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02357068

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