TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Study on Malaysia Primary School Science Education: Foundation for Environmental Knowledge
AU - Zakaria, Sharifah Zarina Syed AU - Halim, Lilia 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 4
IS  - 6
SP  - 604
EP  - 609
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2009.604.609
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2009.604.609
KW  - Malaysia
KW  -science education
KW  -science syllabus
KW  -environmental knowledge
KW  -environmental awareness
KW  -primary school
AB  - As a developing nation, Malaysia needs citizens who can contribute to the scientific and technological developments in order to compete and be at par with other developed nations and to be able to achieve this goal by year 2020. Malaysia must not only have a scientifically and technologically literate citizens, but citizens who know and aware of how to sustain the development. This can be accomplish if the children in schools today are prepared and geared towards an education that taught and shaped their thinking and behavior towards the importance of a sustainable development. Thus, the knowledge of science must not only produce good inventors, or creative innovators in the future, but citizens who can, besides contributing to the development of science and technology, must also be aware and conscious of their actions that might give bad or negative influence to the environment. Thus, the objective of this study is to find out what are the elements of environmentally-related subject that is taught in science classes in Malaysian primary schools and to relate its part as a foundation and contribution for sustainable development.
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