IS THE NATURAL SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM ENOUGH FOR A CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY?
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2011, Vol 37, Issue 1
Abstract
Considering that Science and Technology are in the present day the greatest factors in changing the way we live. They have also made the world very small so that we are no longer living in the confined world of our town, region or country isolated from what is happening in the rest of the globe (Härnqvist & Burgen, 1997). Every change around the world could be connected with change that really affects everyone. As we can see on the last days how the economic discussions in different countries are affecting the entire globe. The development of educational systems was connected to the scientific and technological development of countries and also so straight attached to economical and political domain of developed countries. In this case, the scientific and technological education was in evidence for many reasons since from the control of new devices to recruit new talents for science studies.
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Agnaldo Arroio
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