SOME SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND.

This article briefly reports on some research papers and other resources revealing the history of scientific education in Great Britain. The contribution of studies in the history of science teaching towards contemporary problems in science education, reportedly, is suggested by professor H. Butterfield in his book "Man on His Past." According to the author, one of the most useful single study is Dorothy M. Turner's article "History of Science Teaching in England" which in the early part considers the beginnings of science instruction from the thirteenth century. Scientific societies have played their most notable and influential part in the spread of scientific knowledge during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The importance of all scientific societies from the learned bodies to the multiplicity of provincial and parochial associations in relation to the progress of science was emphasized in the "Annual Report of the British Association, 1879." Several studies reveal that the history of universities and in particular the impact of the scientific revolution and the subsequent development of science courses have been fully explored. The decline in effectiveness of the institutes and the middle class invasion resulted from deficiencies in both primary and secondary education.