Sources of data include selected textbooks, government documents concerning educational policies and curriculum, school syllabi and relevant studies.
The author gathered the data by means of participant and non-participant observation and the analysis of syllabi and didactic materials.
From the posted syllabi for these courses a standard astrobiology course was proposed.
Rather than developing in the linear manner that syllabi and curricula want to us to believe, learning develops in non-linear, discontinuous ways.
First, concerning the treatment and the materials, neither the texts used nor the reading tasks were part of the treatment groups' class syllabi.
In theory, then, the faculty were going to have to write four different syllabi (one for each semester) in the new curriculum.
Now, as all education was to be funded by the federal government, it could have more control of the teaching syllabi of the rural schools.
Indeed, topics such as these are included in the syllabi taught to boys in madrasahs.
