East-Asian Primary Science Curricula An Overview Using Revised Bloom
This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states — mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore. Specifically, the aut
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Yew-Jin Lee Mijung Kim Qingna Jin Hye-Gyoung Yoon Kenji Matsubara
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Yew-Jin Lee Mijung Kim Qingna Jin Hye-Gyoung Yoon Kenji Matsubara •
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East-Asian Primary Science Curricula An Overview Using Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Yew-Jin Lee National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore
Hye-Gyoung Yoon Chuncheon National University of Education Chuncheon, Kangwon-do Korea (Republic of)
Mijung Kim University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada
Kenji Matsubara National Institute for Educational Policy Research Tokyo Japan
Qingna Jin University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada
ISSN 2211-1921 SpringerBriefs in Education ISBN 978-981-10-2689-8 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2690-4
ISSN 2211-193X (electronic) ISBN 978-981-10-2690-4
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Acknowledgements
We thank Dr. Subramaniam Ramanathan from the National Institute of Education (Singapore) for valuable advice and generous help on the interrater reliability calculations.
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Contents
1 Primary Science Curricula: Past and Present Realities . . . . . . . The Unknown Intellectual Demands of Science Curricula. . . . . . . . What Our Study Is not and Its Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Overview of Primary Science Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lack of Research into Primary Science Curricula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Why Knowing the Intellectual Demands of Curricula Matters . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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