Tao Xingzhi was the initiator of science education in China. He initiated the 'marrying science with the public' movement in 1931, which formed the starting point of modern science education in China. The two cores of the movement are science popularization and saving the nation through science education. Looking back at the history of nearly…

For over half a century, starting around 1960, physics education was put under the intellectual microscope of a London-based university lecturer--Dr John Warren. His scrutiny of physics textbooks and examination papers in particular led him to conduct a sustained assault on error, ambiguity and lack of rigour in the presentation of our subject.…

Over the past 10?years an increasing number of articles have been published in leading science education journals that report on research about teacher identity and describe interventions that support teacher identity development. My purpose in this review paper is to examine how the construct of science teacher identity has been conceptualised…

Louis Pasteur's career as a scientist and as a teacher of science is traced. The discovery of his ability and interest, his choice of teaching as a profession, the controversy over teaching versus research, and his methods of teaching science are included. (MNS)

Dawes' ideas on the curriculum for elementary schools, and, in particular, on the contribution of science to education, were a seminal influence throughout the nineteenth century. (Author/MB)