The Teaching-Learning Strategy of the Primary Science Project of the Science Education Programme for Africa. IIEP Seminar Paper 30.

This paper is concerned with the teaching-learning strategy of the Primary Science Project of the Science Education Program for Africa. It was presented in the 1976 seminar of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) of the UNESCO in Paris. The document includes six sections: (1) The concept of a strategy; (2) Description of the strategy; (3) Advantages and disadvantages of outcomes; (4) Development and implementation in Ghana; (5) The role of formative evaluation; and (6) Implications. The description of the strategy includes influence of teachers' decisions, time for learning, goals of learning, content of learning activities, structure of learning sequences, pupils' role, influence of diagnostic feedback, ideological bases of the strategy, and origin of the strategy. The implications discuss curriculum planning policy, teacher training and allocation of resources. (HM)