The establishment of a National Curriculum was deemed necessary in order to standardise the content and objectives of school teaching (Nicolson and Holman, 2003). ... There are numerous arguments for teaching science, Wellington (2002) summarises these into three main ideas; the intrinsic worth, the utility of science, and the citizenship argument. ... Science teaching in schools currently aims to take the emphasis away from simply the recall of factual information and focus more on processes and uses of science in the 'real world'. ... Hutton (2008) states "the scientific method is...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. ... In the Socratic dialogues, he would question the students and carefully apply his dialectical method. This method employed a critical inquiry to undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines. ... He tried to pass on the heritage of a Socratic style of thinking and to guide the progress of the students through mathematical learning to the achievement of abstract philosophical truth. In his earliest literary efforts, Plato tried to convey the spirit of Socrates's te...

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The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. ... In the Socratic dialogues, he would question the students and carefully apply his dialectical method. This method employed a critical inquiry to undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines. ... He tried to pass on the heritage of a Socratic style of thinking and to guide the progress of the students through mathematical learning to the achievement of abstract philosophical truth. In his earliest literary efforts, Plato tried to convey the spirit of Socrates's te...

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• Approx Pages: 5