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British Planetaria and the National Curriculum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

Steve Tidey
Steve Tidey*
Affiliation:
Association for Astronomy Education, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK

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The UK is experiencing a relative Golden Age for planetaria, thanks in many ways to its national curriculum. In 1991 the British government finally bowed to many years of steady pressure by interest groups and introduced into a new and controversial general curriculum a requirement for pupils to attain knowledge about the Earth-Moon system, solar system objects and basic cosmology. Prior to this there had been no science curriculum for pupils aged under 11. Astronomy formed a small part of nature study. The science education of 11–16 year-olds depended on their GCSE syllabuses.

Type
Section Four
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 168 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © 1996

References

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Science In The National Curriculum 1991, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK.Google Scholar
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