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unusual facts about science education



Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya

Spending his senior years in Gujarat University, he initiated state wide efforts to revolutionize mathematics and science education - his motivation being "I am the highest paid mathematics teacher in Gujarat. It cannot be (limited) for teaching M.Sc. classes."


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Alamsyah Ratu Perwiranegara

After Indonesian independence August 17, 1945, Alamsjah sent to India to follow the military science education at the Senior Officer Course at Mhow and then continued his education at the General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

Ariel Fenster

Among them are the 1989 "Catalyst Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching" by the United States Chemical Manufacturers Association, the 1992 inaugural "McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science" from the Royal Society of Canada, the 1999 Raymond Gervais Award for Exceptional Contribution to Science Education given by the Quebec Association of Science Teachers, and the 2005 Michael Smith Award for the Promotion of Science by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.

Bubble sort

However, some researchers such as Owen Astrachan have gone to great lengths to disparage bubble sort and its continued popularity in computer science education, recommending that it no longer even be taught.

Ceres Connection

The Ceres Connection is a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated to promoting science education.

Chang Chun-Yen

Since 1998, Chang has participated more than 40 National Science Council projects, and serves as a long-term project reviewer of the NSC's Department of Science Education.

Christopher Emdin

At Columbia, he launched the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education with Dr. Barbara Wallace in 2013.

Convention du Lac

Convention du Lac is a North American multi-genre convention, held annually in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now operating under the name BayouCon, presented by the non-profit Southwest Louisiana Science Education Foundation.

Darwin on Trial

The book initially received more attention from popular media than from the scientific community, although soon after the book was released Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education responded to it, saying "scientific creationists" like Johnson "confuse the general public, by mixing up the controversy among scientists about how evolution took place, with a more general question of whether it took place at all".

DragonflyTV

DragonflyTV is a science education television series for children aged 6–12, produced by Twin Cities Public Television, broadcast on most PBS stations.

Intelligent design movement

On a far smaller scale, Larry Caldwell and his wife operate under the name Quality Science Education for All, and have made a number of lawsuits in furtherance of the movement's anti-evolution agenda.

John Henry Pepper

He also oversaw the introduction of evening lectures at the Royal Polytechnic Institution and wrote several important science education books, one of which is regarded as a significant step towards the understanding of continental drift.

Joseph D. Novak

He has received a number of awards and honors including a 1998 Honorary Doctorate from The University of Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina, Honorary Doctorate, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2002, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Urbino in 2006, and the first award for contributions to science education from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

Margaret D. Lowman

Girls, Inc. Visionary Award for Public Science & Education Outreach, 2000

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

In Orihuela, there are two schools and five UMH departments distributed between two university locations (Desamparados and Salesas), where technical and social science education, respectively, are offered.

National Science Education Standards

The National Science Education Standards (NSES) are a set of guidelines for the science education in primary and secondary schools in the United States, as established by the National Research Council in 1996.

Robert Karplus

Karplus’ new passion coincided, serendipitously, with the post-Sputnik wave of efforts to upgrade US science education.

Roger Bingham

In 2003, Roger Bingham and Terry Sejnowski initiated a science education project that became known as The Science Network.

Sekolah Menengah Sains Tuanku Jaafar

The establishment aims to provide science education to rural Bumiputera.

SETI Institute

The SETI Institute’s public outreach efforts include working with teachers and students in promoting science education and the teaching of evolution, working with NASA on exploration missions such as Kepler and SOFIA, and producing a weekly science program: Big Picture Science.

The Journal of Food Science Education

The Journal of Food Science Education is an online peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Food Technologists (Chicago, Illinois).

The Living Sea

It is narrated by actress Meryl Streep, with music by Sting, produced by Science World, a Vancouver based science education centre, and underwater imagery directed by filmmaker Greg MacGillivray.

Vignan University

The institution began as Vignan's Engineering College in 1997 and was affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad as a part of the Vignan Foundation for Science, Education & Research.

West Roxbury Education Complex

An island within the wetland is accessible by a boardwalk from the shore behind the school where the Boston Schoolyard Initiative built an Outdoor Classroom and science education site in collaboration with the Urban Science Academy.