The
mission of this website is to provide a single, unified source a
portal for those interested in any aspect of the Systemic
Approach to Teaching and Learning (SATL). Since its inception
24
years ago (1998)
through the joint efforts of Professor A. F. M. Fahmy at the
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science ,and Science
Education Centerof Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and
Professor J. J. Lagowski ,Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Texas, USA. These SATL technique(s) have been successfully
applied at all levels of education, and across a wide
variety of disciplines. The majority of the controlled
studies on the academic usefulness of SATL have been
conducted by the SEC in the Egyptian system of education and
there is every reason to believe that the general
conclusions derived from these studies—that the SATL
techniques provide a superior learning environment than the
traditional linear methods of teaching—will transcend
political and cultural barriers as well as being applicable
to all levels of education.
The
mission of this website is to provide ready access to the
details that support the general conclusions mentioned earlier
(vide supra). Papers supporting our contentions
concerning SATL are scattered over a wide variety of sources
that may not be familiar to some of those interested in
SATL techniques, and we have indicated their relevance with
links; a master list of references is available [6]
for browsing or searching.
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