引言在过去数年间,英国政府制定了好几项全国性教育政策,影响将会非常深远。在这些政策影响下,理科教育是各科中首先进行变革的。笔者最近参加了一项由英国文化协会主办的,名为“为理科教育培训教师”的课程,在此课程中,有幸接触到好几位现在正在积极投入这些变革的教育界人士,并聆听他们讲述这些变革的原因、内容及初步方案。本文试图简单介绍这些新政策及其可能带来的影响。一些背景资料长期以来,英国的教育制度跟我国大陆的教育制度有很大的差异。在我国,中央教育政策对全国各省、市和地区都起着重要的影响,而且各中、小学校的课程差异不大。反之,直至最近几年的变革开始之前,英国学校的课程结构是没有明确的中央指引的,各校对于如何具体安排其课程及其教授方法拥有颇大的自由度。成绩评核方面也是一样,英国没有全国统一的评核。公 INTRODUCTION In the past few years, the British government has formulated several national education policies, and the impact will be very far-reaching. Under the influence of these policies, science education is the first to change in all subjects. The writer recently participated in a course called “The Teacher Training for Science Education” sponsored by the British Council. In this course, I was fortunate enough to come into contact with several educators who are now actively pursuing these changes and listened. They talk about the reasons, content and preliminary plans for these changes. This article attempts to briefly introduce these new policies and their possible impact. Some Background Information For a long time, the British education system is very different from the mainland China’s education system. In our country, the central education policy has an important impact on all provinces, cities, and regions in the country, and there is little difference in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools. On the contrary, until the reforms in recent years began, the curriculum structure of British schools did not have a clear central guideline. Each school had considerable freedom in how to arrange its curriculum and its teaching methods. The same is true for performance evaluation. There is no unified national assessment in the United Kingdom. public