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The Whole Curriculum in Primary Schools

Published in 1993 by the Association for Science Education, this report was a response to concerns about primary curriculum overload and the place of science as a core subject within the curriculum. A task group including practising teachers, a primary head teacher, a science adviser, lecturers and researchers in primary education and primary science, was set up to consider the place of science in the curriculum of primary schools.

Concerned mainly with the National Curriculum for England and Wales it looked at the importance of science education, time constraints imposed by the curriculum, the best approaches for teaching science, the importance of scientific enquiry, continuity and progression, planning, assessment, initial teacher training and provision of resources in schools for delivering the curriculum.

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