028212 Science and Technology Education 2

This subject builds on students' learning in the prerequisite subject and continues to assist students to become lifelong learners. It guides students in their use of the discipline's major forms of inquiry (creation of new ideas and using established knowledge) and passes an increasing responsibility for learning to the student. Students are able to develop a learning unit in science and technology for a particular primary class. In requiring students to use a variety of sources (including the Internet) for accessing, analysing and evaluating information, this subject contributes to the development of students' literacies in science and technology, information and language. This subject locates learning and teaching in intellectual, practical, creative, social, gender-inclusive and culturally sensitive contexts. Hence, it plays a part in assisting students to gain access to research, theories, practices and experiences so that they might later become ethical and committed primary school teachers and/or scholars and researchers in this field.