eprintid: 10000259
rev_number: 45
eprint_status: archive
userid: 587
source: pure
dir: disk0/00/00/02/59
datestamp: 2009-04-30 13:51:59
lastmod: 2017-12-07 21:02:04
status_changed: 2009-04-30 13:51:59
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Abrahams, Ian
title: An unrealistic image of science
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
keywords: Image, Practical Work, Unsustainable
abstract: Many UK secondary schools (ages 11-18) host Open Days for pupils in their final year of primary school education (age 10). At these events science teachers try, through the judicious use of a select number of practical tasks, to portray science as being a fun, exciting and essentially a "hands on" activity. Whilst this approach generates short-term situational interest amongst pupils it is ultimately an unrealistic, and arguably unsustainable, image of science.
date: 2007-03
date_type: published
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
publication: School Science Review
volume: 88
pagerange: 119-122
pages: 4
refereed: FALSE
issn: 0036-6811
citation:        Abrahams, Ian;      (2007)    An unrealistic image of science.                   School Science Review , 88    pp. 119-122.          Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10000259/1/Abrahams2007An119.pdf