Primary Science Curriculum Terminal Competencies in Bangladesh: National and Global polices

Education

Science is needs to sound knowledge; attitudes and skills from the early childhood for create a perfect society. To face the challenges of present primary science curriculum is needed to consider national policies in education. Among twenty nine competencies at primary level in Bangladesh, 15 competencies are related to primary science curriculum. This research targets to find out primary science curriculum terminal competencies in Bangladesh which are focused on global and national policies. This study followed a mixed method research design to provide a better understanding of a research problem than either qualitative or quantitative method by itself. An observation schedule and an interview schedule were used to collect necessary information for this study to address the research questions, a variety of data analysis technique were used. Then document analysis was done. Document of global and national policies and related articles were selected purposively. Respondents to questionnaire were also selected purposively. In Findings, the study reveal that global and national policies in education are enough focused in written terminal competencies chart but these are not sufficiently included in curriculum which is the hindrance to meet with national challenge in 21st century.

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