Chapter 15: Pioneers In Science Education: Marvin Druger

At age 79, it’s not easy to summarize a career in science education that dates back to student teaching at Midwood High School in Brooklyn NY in 1954. It seems that I’ve done almost everything in my science education career, including teaching, research, administration, program and curriculum development, and countless service activities at the local and national levels. Any attempt for me to write an inclusive chapter about my professional activities would be necessarily incomplete. So, in this chapter, I have tried to include a glimpse of some of the experiences that helped shape my career in science education. A core guide to my teaching career and life is that we learn from everything that we do and everything that we do becomes part of who we are. We tend to forget information, but we remember experiences. Unique, motivational, experiences are keys to teaching and learning. In this chapter, I’ll try to highlight some of the special experiences that helped shape my life and career in science education.