Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Abstract
The term ‘scientific literacy’ has been used in the literature for more than four decades (Gallagher & Harsch, 1997), although not always with the same meaning (Bybee, 1997). It is a simple term and its major advantage is that it sums up, at the school level, the intentions of science education. The term scientific literacy avoids the use of distracting detail and, as such, convincingly portrays a complex idea which intuitively appears to be correct (Baumert, 1997). Baumert recognises that the core of the idea behind scientific literacy lies in its analogy with literacy.
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Nbina, Jacobson and Obomanu, B.J.
(2010)
"The Meaning of Scientific Literacy: A Model of Relevance in Science Education,"
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal: Vol. 8:
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4, Article 70.
DOI: 10.58809/HADL9123
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