Scientific literacy for all citizens: Different concepts and contents

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-137

  Popli, Rakesh ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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EID: 0012659241     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/8/2/304     Document Type: Review

References (25)

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2. National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Minimum Levels of Learning at the Primary Level, report of a committee formed by the Department of Education, Government of India (New Delhi: NCERT, 1991); R. Popli, "Popularization of Science among Tribal Youth," report of an action research project, 1985-87 (unpublished), and "An Evaluation of Science and Mathematics Proficiency of Rural Students in Ranchi District, 1992" (unpublished).
3. National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Minimum Levels of Learning at the Primary Level, report of a committee formed by the Department of Education, Government of India (New Delhi: NCERT, 1991); R. Popli, "Popularization of Science among Tribal Youth," report of an action research project, 1985-87 (unpublished), and "An Evaluation of Science and Mathematics Proficiency of Rural Students in Ranchi District, 1992" (unpublished).
4. Narender K. Sehgal, letter dated October 14, 1986, reproduced partly in R. Popli and A. Sinha, Minimum Science for Everybody (India: Vikas Bharati Bishunpur, 1989).
5. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science for All Americans, report of Project 2061 (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989). See also the panel reports: Mary Clark, "Biological and Health Sciences," David Blackwell and Leon Henkin, "Mathematics," George Bugliarello, "Physical and Information Sciences and Engineering," Mortimer Appley and Winifred B. Maher, "Social and Behavioral Sciences," and James R. Johnson, "Technology."
6. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science for All Americans, report of Project 2061 (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989). See also the panel reports: Mary Clark, "Biological and Health Sciences," David Blackwell and Leon Henkin, "Mathematics," George Bugliarello, "Physical and Information Sciences and Engineering," Mortimer Appley and Winifred B. Maher, "Social and Behavioral Sciences," and James R. Johnson, "Technology."
7. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science for All Americans, report of Project 2061 (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989). See also the panel reports: Mary Clark, "Biological and Health Sciences," David Blackwell and Leon Henkin, "Mathematics," George Bugliarello, "Physical and Information Sciences and Engineering," Mortimer Appley and Winifred B. Maher, "Social and Behavioral Sciences," and James R. Johnson, "Technology."
8. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science for All Americans, report of Project 2061 (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989). See also the panel reports: Mary Clark, "Biological and Health Sciences," David Blackwell and Leon Henkin, "Mathematics," George Bugliarello, "Physical and Information Sciences and Engineering," Mortimer Appley and Winifred B. Maher, "Social and Behavioral Sciences," and James R. Johnson, "Technology."
9. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science for All Americans, report of Project 2061 (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989). See also the panel reports: Mary Clark, "Biological and Health Sciences," David Blackwell and Leon Henkin, "Mathematics," George Bugliarello, "Physical and Information Sciences and Engineering," Mortimer Appley and Winifred B. Maher, "Social and Behavioral Sciences," and James R. Johnson, "Technology."
10. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science for All Americans, report of Project 2061 (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989). See also the panel reports: Mary Clark, "Biological and Health Sciences," David Blackwell and Leon Henkin, "Mathematics," George Bugliarello, "Physical and Information Sciences and Engineering," Mortimer Appley and Winifred B. Maher, "Social and Behavioral Sciences," and James R. Johnson, "Technology."
11. G. Fourez, "Scientific Literacy, Societal Choices, and Ideologies," in A. B. Champaigne et al., eds., Scientific Literacy (Washington, D.C.: AAAS, 1989).
12. See, for example, The State of India's Environment, Statements of Shared Concern in the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), (New Delhi: CSE, 1982 and 1984-85).
13. F. J. Thomas and A. S. Kindo, Towards Scientific Literacy (Tehran: International Institute for Adult Literacy Methods and Hulton Educational Publications, 1978).
14. Popli and Sinha, Minimum Science for Everybody.
15. Third World Network (TWN), Modern Science in Crisis (Penang, Malaysia: TWN, 1988).
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17. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Benchmarks for Science Literacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
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19. PPST Foundation, Congress on Traditional Sciences and Technologies of India: Keynote Papers and Extended Abstracts (Bombay: PPSTF, 1993), Second Congress on Traditional Sciences and Technologies of India: Keynote Papers and Extended Abstracts (Madras: PPSTF, 1995), and Third Congress on Traditional Sciences and Technologies of India: Keynote Papers and Extended Abstracts (Varanasi: PPSTF, 1998).
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