Education

Science should emerge as something alive and exciting. Such a model will meet the wider aims of science education, and at the same time is more likely to encourage students to want to study it.  The overloading of syllabi is often justified by citing the information explosion, and saying that our syllabi have to expand to incorporate it. It is argued that this is necessary in order to catch up with the west. Any change proposed is viewed as a “dilution” that will adversely affect our “competitiveness.”  It is imperative to move to a new model of school science education, in which science is not alien, but organically linked to children’s experiences. The processes of science have to be given due importance, and children have to be given opportunities to do things “hands-on.”