ABSTRACT
From 1983 to the present day, Science for All, or a variant of it, has been officially espoused as the intention for school Science in country after country. The Ministers of Education in the Asia Region of Unesco (from Pakistan and India to Japan and New Zealand and a dozen countries in between) determined that this goal was an urgent priority for their educational systems (Unesco 1983). In the same year the National Science Foundation (1983) was presented with a high-level report that called for Science for All Americans. In 1984 in Canada, Science for Every Student appeared, and soon after the Royal Society (Bodmer 1985) in Britain argued persuasively that Science is for Everybody.
