Why Many Students Find Science Difficult to Study and Understand
Traditionally, learning science - let alone favourable - has been a difficult task. It has been assumed with relative normality in our educational culture that not all students are worthy to study the sciences, that it is an exclusive, if not exclusive, a subject for which not all of us are trained. In this way, scientific education has traditionally fulfilled in our educational system, and perhaps unfortunately still continues to fulfil, a selective rather than formative function: more emphasis has been placed on selecting the most qualified students than in providing a scientific education to all students as part of their citizenship training. However, in the new curricular frameworks, especially since the introduction of Compulsory Secondary Education, the goals of scientific education should be explicitly directed towards what could be called a scientific literacy process, a scientific education for all, based on the assumption that scientific knowledge and thought, the ways of...