Science education — I: The spirit of science |
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Authors: | Victor L Pollak |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina;(2) Department of Physics, UNCC Station, 28223 Charlotte, North Carolina |
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Abstract: | In these two essays we explore the questions: what are the essential features of a workable context for science education? What are the givens, the “of courses,” the “fundamental dispositions” toward science and toward education necessary — or at least sufficient — to provide a fertile ground upon which a functional approach to science education can be established? In the present essay it is argued first that science education must reflect that science is a way of thinking — in fact, more comprehensively, a way of being; and second, and that the fundamentally antiauthoritarian spirit of science must be reconciled with education, with its built-in tendency to be authoritarian. |
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Keywords: | Science education science education reform scientific literacy philosophy of education existentialism in education |
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