Balanced Thinking: An Educational Perspective for the 2000+ on the Basis of a Cross-Cultural German/Japanese Study Tapa dura - 2000

The Authors: Gerhard Schaefer is emerited professor of the university of Hamburg and presently referee for educational matters in GDN. He studied mathematics, physics and biology at the university of Marburg and moved over to education, being a teacher first on the secondary, later on the tertiary level over 45 years. He was president of Gf 1979, VDBiol 1993-96 and chairman of IUBS-CBE 1984-92. His main research field is concept formation in science education.
Ryoei Yoshioka is head of Educational Information Systems, Centre for Educational Resources in the National Institute for Educational Research of Japan (NIER). He studied science education at the university of Tsukuba. He is a director in the Japanese Society of Science Education. His main research field is science education and educational information.