TY - JOUR
AU - PENFOLD, D. M. EDWARDS
AB -  SCIENCE teachers of to-day have the twofold task of instructing the specialist and creating in the average citizen an interest in the scope and methods of modern science. The vast majority of their pupils falls within the latter category and the object of this study was to help teachers to understand which factors are associated with interest in science and whether there are any factors which tend t o be associated with indifference towards science. Specific aspects of this problem have received attention throughout the century, but it is only during the last decade that researches such as those of Terman (1) and Lovell and White (2) have shown a trend towards global investigations concerning the relationships of the interests of individuals to as many of the elements of their psychological and sociological environments as it seemed reasonable t o postulate. In the main, however, these were not concerned with school children, but with students and adults. Nevertheless, recent studies of the influence of such external factors a the museum (see Brooks andvernon, (3), suggest that the field of influence s which either stimulates or aborts the growth of interest of children in science is probably enormously wide. 
TI - III.—F actors A ssociated with I nterest in S cience
JF - British Journal of Educational Psychology
DO - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1961.tb01698.x
DA - 1961-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/iii-f-actors-a-ssociated-with-i-nterest-in-s-cience-BeACeZBbaB
SP - 33
VL - 31
IS - P1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -