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| This is the Home Page for a collection of research project reports seeking
to improve science education at all levels by developing a better understanding
of the role culture plays in the teaching and learning of science. The
research assumes that scientific literacy is the critical purpose of science
education at the school level and that literacy should be understood as
the degree to which science is integrated in the everyday thinking of
people. Moreover, since all instruction and curriculum are communicated
in some cultural idiom the improvement of science education requires a
better knowledge of those cultural idioms.
SLCSP was originally funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
The content, however, is the sole responsibility of the project director
and associates.
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