New Perspectives in Science Education

High School Science and Technology and Social Science curricula for the 21^st century have to enclose learning units which include subject content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge in a continuous interaction in order to be relevant to students' needs. 

The science content and technology and related societal issues written on the Science, Technology and Society (STS), approach have to use teaching/learning strategies settings, cooperative learning in small groups, individual  learning and computer episodes. In the social science, the Group Investigation method was used as a participatory research method with young students in mixed Arab- Jewish educational context. It was assumed that by using all these teaching/learning strategies    students will acquire science-technology knowledge connected to societal issues. The high school curricula for the21st century may provide students with the skills needed for integration and participation in the scientific-technology society in which they will live, being able find a job based on their learning.