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Reducing the text burden: Using children's literature and trade books in elementary school science educaton

Virginia Nordstrom (Head librarian of the Curriculum Resource Center at Bowling Green State University Libraries, Bowling Green, Ohio.)

Reference Services Review

ISSN: 0090-7324

Article publication date: 1 January 1992

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Abstract

In the 1980s, as the United States encountered international economic and technological challenges, the very ability of the American educational system to produce a competitive labor force, able to learn and solve problems, was questioned. During this past decade, renewed concern about educational quality in the United States motivated over one hundred reports analyzing the shortcomings in our system of education and endorsing reform. All of the principal curriculum areas have been reviewed in this process; moreover, science education has been deemed particularly deficient. Major reports sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recommend both content revision of science courses and methodological changes in the way science is presented throughout the elementary and secondary grades.

Citation

Nordstrom, V. (1992), "Reducing the text burden: Using children's literature and trade books in elementary school science educaton", Reference Services Review, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049147

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1992, MCB UP Limited

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