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Environmental Consciousness and Action: An Australian Perspective.
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Salleh, Ariel Kay – Journal of Environmental Education, 1989
Discussed is a study which triangulates the relationship between the patriarchal system, capitalism, and ecology using ethnomethodology. Relates a feminine idealogical set to general environmental sensibility. (CW)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Ecology, Environmental Education, Females
Public Knowledge and Perceptions of Science and Technology.
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Schibeci, R. A. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 1990
Reported are some data on both knowledge and perception of science and technology from a sample of adults in Perth, Western Australia. The results are compared to those of the United Kingdom. Included are the sampling and survey procedure, sample questions, results, and the discussion. (KR)
Descriptors: College Science, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Perception
Science Achievement of Girls in Single-sex and Co-educational Schools.
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Young, Deidra J.; Fraser, Barry J. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1990
Examined were sex differences and the role of socioeconomic status in science achievement in Western Australian coeducational and single-sex schools. The influence of independent schools, both single-sex and coeducational, was found to be a factor that improved student science achievement for both boys and girls. (CW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Status, Foreign Countries, Private Schools
Conceptions of Scientific Literacy: Reactionaries in Ascendency in the State of Victoria.
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Cross, Roger – Research in Science Education, 1995
Argues that the alliance between the government and the scientific establishment has resulted in reforms that do not help future citizens in understanding the complexities of the social relations of science and technology. Presents evidence of a return to a conception of scientific literacy in which the central mythology of value-free science is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Technology in the Primary School Curriculum: Teacher Ideas.
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Symington, David J. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1987
Reports the results of a survey of 70 experienced primary school teachers in Australia designed to explore respondents' concepts of technology and their attitudes about curriculum change. Discusses the implications of their findings on technology curriculum improvement. (CW)
Descriptors: Biology, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Science
Environmentalism & Education.
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Blake, Trevor; Cock, Peter – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1987
Examines the tensions between the development of a holistic understanding of the diverse relations linking people and environments and the more dominant, technocratic orientation of environmental studies programs in higher education. Describes how the graduate environmental science program at Monash University (Australia) has dealt with these…
Descriptors: College Science, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Educational Philosophy
Structural Change in Curriculum: The Implications for Gender Equity in Science and Mathematics.
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Johnston, Jayne E.; Rennie, Leonie J. – 1990
In the mid to late 1980s, observers of education in Western Australia witnessed considerable educational change. Following an inquiry into education in Western Australia (Beazley, 1984), several major changes were made in secondary school curricula, procedures of assessment, and methods of certification. This paper explores some of the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Course Selection (Students), Educational Change, Educational Trends