Publisher's Synopsis
The lecturers at this forum aimed to identify directions to be taken in science education that will endow citizens with scientific literacy. The general failure of education to achieve this goal was emphasized as, all too often, science education today is viewed as a means of creating a scientific elite and of academic selection. Science today is relevant to everyone. Citizens need not be specialists but they do need to be scientifically literate if they are to form responsible opinions and participate in the debate on the scientific issues that confront society today. In addition, science teaching must go hand in hand with humanism if some of the tragic mistakes made in the past that were supported by scientific theory devoid of human values are to be avoided.
