History of Science and Technology in the Teaching of Scienceand History in the High School

这个项目有两个总体目标。首先是让高中教师和学生更好地掌握科学技术的本质、支持科学技术的机构及其在社会、文化和历史中的地位。二是招聘；激发学生对科学和工程的兴趣，将其作为值得追求的研究和职业。这个项目很及时。它的目的是为了解决一些广为宣传的国家报告和研究所揭示的高中在社会科学、人文科学和数学方面表现不尽如人意的问题。它还旨在解决学生对科学不再抱有幻想这一同样令人不安的问题，其原因在于科学课程中教授科学的方式以及非科学课程中描述科学的方式。尤其是历史。该项目正在开发独立的、与正规学校课程相结合的学习“单元”，并可酌情引入。课程单元将包括学生阅读、教师手册和视听教具，并将分别为科学和历史构建。物理和生物，以及美国和世界历史也将得到同等的重视。这个项目的一个特点是由历史学家和科学家组成的教师组，这样每位教师都可以依靠一位感兴趣且见多识广的伙伴的帮助。//

This project has two overall aims. The first is to provide high school teachers and students with a better grasp of the nature of science and technology, the institutions that support them and their place in society, culture, and history. The second is recruitment; the arousal in students of an interest in science and engineering as studies and careers worth pursuing. The project is timely. It is intended to combat the unsatisfactory levels of high school performance in social science, humanities, and mathematics revealed by a number of well-publicized national reports and studies. It is also intended to address the equally disturbing problem of student disenchantment with science, the causes of which originate in the way in which science is taught in sciences courses and in the way it is portrayed in the non-science curriculum, and particularly history. The project is developing "units" of study that are self- contained and keyed to the regular school curriculum and can be introduced as appropriate. Curricular units will include student readings, teacher manuals, and audio-visual aids, and will be constructed separately for science and history. Equal attention will be given to physics and biology, and to U. S. and world history. A special feature of the project is the formation of historian-scientist pairs of teachers, so that each teacher can count on the help of an interested and informed partner.//