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Challenges for Japanese Science Education

� Improve society’s recognition and the treatment of those with scientific careers

� Develop the fundamental scientific knowledge and attitude that will enable all people to think, make judgments and express themselves throughout their lives (foster scientific literacy)

� Aim for science education that increases enthusiasm for learning science. Also place importance on training teachers to realise this goal.

� Science education has been overly criticized and is demoralized. It is important to have a culture that encourages the positive things that children and teachers do.

� Is it possible to improve average academic ability at the same time as increasing originality and creativity?