Science needs an image overhaul to attract more school students

Palmer, T-A

Science needs an image overhaul to attract more school students

Palmer, T-A

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Publisher:: Sydney Morning Herald
Publication Type:: Internet Publication
Citation:: 2015
Issue Date:: 2015-06-09

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dc.contributor.author	Palmer, T-A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8114-1654	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-06-09	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/134541
dc.description.abstract	My year 10 daughter is thinking about her subjects for the HSC right now. They have their information evening this week. This event made me recall two years ago when her older sister approached the same important decision-making time and asked me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mum, how would you feel if I didn't choose a science?" I felt her pain. She knew I was a year into a doctorate looking at encouraging more students to choose science at school. Here I was with my first in-house test subject turning from the educational path I found most valuable in my life. I didn't stay in science, in fact I went from biochemistry to finance and marketing, and then to teaching but science was the way of thinking that made me who I am. I love it and that's what inspired me to devote three years of my life to working out why almost half of year 10 students now reject science.	en_US
dc.format	Newspaper	en_US
dc.publisher	Sydney Morning Herald	en_US
dc.title	Science needs an image overhaul to attract more school students	en_US
dc.type	Internet Publication
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published online	en_US

Abstract:

My year 10 daughter is thinking about her subjects for the HSC right now. They have their information evening this week. This event made me recall two years ago when her older sister approached the same important decision-making time and asked me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mum, how would you feel if I didn't choose a science?" I felt her pain. She knew I was a year into a doctorate looking at encouraging more students to choose science at school. Here I was with my first in-house test subject turning from the educational path I found most valuable in my life. I didn't stay in science, in fact I went from biochemistry to finance and marketing, and then to teaching but science was the way of thinking that made me who I am. I love it and that's what inspired me to devote three years of my life to working out why almost half of year 10 students now reject science.

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