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School science and citizenship: whose science and whose citizenship?
Author(s) -
Jenkins Edgar W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/09585170600909647
Subject(s) - citizenship , science education , political science , sociology , citizenship education , social science , pedagogy , law , politics
Attempts to link school science education with citizenship are not new. They range from the General Science movement of the first half of the last century to more recent initiatives such as 21st Century Science in the UK and ChemCom in the USA. This article reviews some of these earlier attempts, with particular reference to the UK, examines their rationale and outcomes, and comments upon some of their implications for current attempts to re‐engage school science with citizenship.