Member Working Party for Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council study on primary school science and technology, to develop advice for Federal Minister of Education

Given the emphasis on STEM education programs (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), there is clearly a need for accessible, timely, and solid science information. The interest in these fields starts early and extends into undergraduate and graduate classes. Even users at public libraries are keen to access information on topics their children are studying, or they have seen on the news. Participant in invited National Science Foundation/National Research Council (USA) project to develop a science education research agenda for the next decade (only participant from outside North America)

Professor Gunstone is now Emeritus Professor. Previously he was Professor of Science and Technology Education, and Director (and founder) of the Monash-King's College (London) International Centre for the Study of Science and Mathematics Curriculum. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Life Member of the Science Teachers' Association of Victoria. He has extensive research, development and consultancy experience in learning, teaching, curriculum, assessment, and teacher development, in school and undergraduate science, physics, engineering (and to a lesser extent medicine) contexts. Articles are published to the Encyclopedia, where members can make changes to the article or contribute to discussions about changes. The Principal Author is responsible for making sure the article is accurate, professional, and current. Development work and guidance for a number of science and mathematics curriculum development projects funded by the Netherlands Government in Southern Africa

Evaluation of school science education programs in Mozambique, for Swedish International Development Cooperation, Dept for Democracy and Social Development, Sweden Funding Information: This book is published under Platinum Open Access through IGI Global's Transformative Open Access Initiative with University of North Texas, USA. Contributing Editors and other major contributors long associated with the third edition are as follows. Mike Ashley greatly expanded and updated the coverage of Magazines, and undertook considerable research to amplify author birth and death data throughout. Jonathan Clements wrote large numbers of new and updated entries for China, Japan and related authors and artists, plus selected Far Eastern Cinema and Manga productions. John-Henri Holmberg added and updated a number of Scandinavian entries, especially Swedish and Norwegian authors and the country entry for Sweden. Esther MacCallum-Stewart wrote and oversaw the Games entries. More recently, Steven Pearce has written a great many entries on animated Television series including Anime, somewhat neglected in past editions. Gary Westfahl further expanded and updated the artist/illustrator entries until his other projects no longer permitted this activity; he continued to contribute occasional film/television and theme entries. Most of the past and present Contributing Editors, especially Mike Ashley, also supplied many suggestions and corrections (and written entries) outside their own official spheres. Lccn 2012014320 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA17100 Openlibrary_editionNSW Board of Studies for development of new curricula for science (yrs 7-10) and physics (yrs 11-12) Profs. Aaron M. Brower (University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, USA & University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) and Ryan J. Specht-Boardman (University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, USA) View Other Open Access Books: Funding Information: This book is published under Platinum Open Access through sponsorship and funding from the Lumina Foundation and Walmart. The Friends of the SEP Society Fund: containing membership dues from individuals who have joined the Friends of the SEP Society to obtain such member benefits as nicely formatted PDF versions of SEP entries.