Towards the Specification of Minimum Entitlement: Brenda and Friends

In April 1983 the Steering Committee of the Secondary Science Curriculum Review published a consultative paper Science Education 11-16: proposals for action and consultation. The paper incorporated a statement of aims for science education which was broadly endorsed by most respondents to the consultation. However, many of the readers of the paper asked for more details as to how the aims might relate to practice. This booklet on entitlement, published by Heinemann and the Association for Science Education, was written partly to meet that demand, and also to stimulate further discussion as to the shape and direction of future programmes of science education. The booklet was published at a time when it could have a formative interest on the activities of the working groups in the Review.

Contents
Preface
PART 1 - Towards the specification of minimum entitlement
*Entitlement
*Resources
*The learning environment
*The substance and context of science studies
*Level and depth of treatment
*References
PART 2- Brenda and friends
*Brenda
*Abdul - Particulate nature of matter
*Brenda - Conmunications
*Ceinwen - Systems
*Darryl - Health
*Elizabeth - Interactions and forces
*Ewen - Competition, balance and dynamic equilibrium
*Floyd - Feedback and control
*Gervinder - Space
*John - Ecology and communities
*Leroy - Growth, reproduction and replication
*Paramjit - Change and rate of change
*Po Chiu - Chance and probability
*Rebecca - Energy
*Sharifah - Evolution
*Siobhan - Materials
*William - Time
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