Wynne Harlen

Wynne Harlen

Wynne Harlen began his career as a teacher and university lecturer living After graduating in physics at the University of Oxford. Since 1965 has been engaged in research, curriculum development and evaluation, in the context of primary science teaching. (PhD) is PhD at Bristol University, while working researching assessment procedures, publishing his first book: Science 5/13: A Formative Evaluation in 1975 has since published, as author or co-author of 18 books, including the first edition of Teaching and Learning Primary science, 1985 (Teaching and learning science, Morata, 1989), and collaborated on another 25 After four years as a researcher at Reading University, went to London University, in who was deputy director of APU science project then Centre for Science and Mathematics Education, from 1977 to 1985 he left London to join as professor of science Education at the University of Liverpool. In 1990, he moved to Edinburgh, as director of Scottish Council for Research in Education. He was awarded the SBI for services to education in 1991 he has worked abroad for short regular periods, especially in developing countries, developed for UNESCO the first volume of New Trends in Primary Science Education (1983) , The Training of Primary Science Teacher Education (1992) and various materials and seminar reports. His main concern, both at home and abroad, is to stimulate children's learning through understanding, through the use of procedural techniques and the development of attitudes that foster curiosity about the environment and respect for the same.