Academic Preparation for the Junior College Science Teacher.

The article reports on the needs of teachers to pursue the science education curriculum in preparation to become junior college science teachers in the U.S. However, a number of educators do not believe that one trained in science education should function as a college teacher of science. The junior college science teacher needs a comprehensive knowledge of the whole field of science and a penetrating knowledge of the individual subjects. The fact that college teachers usually lack a sufficiently broad background gives rise to one of the prime weaknesses of higher education, fragmentation and overspecialization of the curriculum.