CHAPTER 20

High School Biology Curricula Development: Implementation, Teaching, and Evaluation from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century

Reuven Lazarowitz

IIT, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

This chapter is divided into two sections. The first part provides a description of the high school biology curricula taught in the twentieth century and presents the factors, which in the author's opinion, have contributed to the creation of these different study programs, based on the rationale described by Tyler (1960). The development of high school biology curricula during the past century will be depicted on the basis of two assumptions: one, that there is a high correlation among biology research, biology content structure, ...

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