caa a22 4500 469127856 CHVBK 20180323133155.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00701360 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00701360 Goodstein David Office of the Provost, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, California aut The science literacy gap: A Karplus lecture [Elektronische Daten] [David Goodstein] The great American experiment in mass higher education has failed completely in the sciences, where we have a small educated elite and an illiterate general public. Our graduate education in science is the best in the world, and contrary to the belief of some, we do not face a future shortage of scientists. However, the rest of our educational system is bad enough to constitute a threat to the ideal of Jeffersonian democracy. "The Mechanical Universe,” a video series produced by Caltech and aimed at high school physics teachers, is described. Although that project has been very successful, much more must be done. The educational infrastructure must be strengthened to the point where science can be taught gradually, throughout the school years and beyond. Furthermore, those of us who are professional teachers of science must become better teachers, both by increasing our own mastery of our subjects and by better understanding the difficulties our students have in learning science. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Science literacy nationallicence "The Mechanical Universe” nationallicence Richard Feynman nationallicence physics education nationallicence Journal of Science Education and Technology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 1/3(1992-09-01), 149-155 1059-0145 1:3<149 1992 1 10956 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00701360 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00701360 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goodstein David Office of the Provost, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Science Education and Technology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 1/3(1992-09-01), 149-155 1059-0145 1:3<149 1992 1 10956 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer