New trends in integrated science teaching.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. A General review of trends in integrated science teaching -- Part 2. Regional and national trends in integrated science teaching -- Part 3. Examples of integrated science teaching -- Part 4. Bibliography.

This publication is the sixth on the subject of integrated science teaching in the UNESCO series The teaching of basic sciences'. The first two (New Trends in Integrated Science Teaching, Volumes I and II) attempted to analyze world-wide trends in a rapidly-evolving field. The third and fourth addressed themselves to two crucial problems, namely the education of teachers (Volume III) and the evaluation of integrated science education (Volume TV). Volume V was based on the proceedings of a conference organized in April 1978 at the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) by the International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) and the Netherlands Association for Science Education (NVON) with the support from UNESCO and other bodies. Its main aims were to take stock of the developments in integrated science education over the previous ten years and to provide an opportunity to look forward to new trends in science education in the 1980s and beyond. The present volume is based on the proceedings of a UNESCO consultation, held in conjunction with a worldwide conference in Canberra in 1988 on Science Education and the Quality of Life, organized by ICASE and the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA). The consultation came 10 years after the conference held in Nijmegen and was designed to look at developments in integrated science teaching over the interim period, to take stock of trends in the teaching of integrated science, and to discuss key issues and problems. The proceedings of the consultation, produced for UNESCO by ICASE, included region and country reports to indicate how far integrated science teaching had spread around the world. These form a substantial base for section 2 in this volume.