Others cited a lack of emphasis on teaching moral and ethical behavior, the threat of violence in the schools, and ineffectiveness in dealing with both learning-disabled and highly gifted children.
"There's a lot of emphasis on teaching children how to eat healthily in mainstream school, in primary and secondary.
Although the core goal of a Pharm.D. program is to teach students the pharmacology of the drugs and which drugs are used for what conditions, Pharm.D. programs put a lot of emphasis on teaching undergraduates how to deal with patients, Corelli says.
The medical training undertaken by the participating physicians (whose average age was 41.7 years when the study was undertaken and published in 1987) may have placed less of an emphasis on teaching interpersonal skills as trainees and practitioners were assumed to acquire interpersonal skills incidentally, simply via interacting with patients [ 47].
School science programs should place a strong emphasis on teaching the distinctiveness of science as a way of knowing, its methodologies as epistemological tools for the effective study of the physical universe.
The calls for an increased emphasis on teaching the nature of science both for the sake of evolution education (e.g., Pigliucci 2007) and for its own sake (e.g., Alberts 2008; Cronjie2008) have come from many corners.
"Sure, there's an emphasis on teaching the components of the scientific method so that students can spit it back on a test.
Thus, there was a strong emphasis on teaching the principles of adaptation and maladaptation, and methods for testing hypotheses about the origins and tradeoffs of biological adaptations (See Additional file 1: Table S1 for list of topics and readings).
Furthermore, they believe that the programme's content should "[s]hift from a focus on covering decontextualized knowledge to an emphasis on teaching for sense of salience, situated cognition, and action in particular situations" (pp. 82).
There are only a few documented programs that formally aim to place a greater emphasis on teaching the process of science as opposed to just delivering content for life science majors.
