SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA.
The article focuses on science education programs in secondary schools of the developing countries namely, Pakistan, India, Burma and Thailand. Science programs in the secondary schools under study varied from all the way from no courses to the usual four courses found in the U.S. Physical science i...
| Publicado en: | Science Education Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 344 - 351 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct1964
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