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12/16/05
Beliefs and Values in Science Education
Science Education book by Michael Poole added to ARN catalog.
Someone recently brought this gem to our attention which was originally published in Britain in 1995. Much of the raging Darwin vs Design debate boils down to the worldview of scientists, educators, school boards, or editors that are in command, and how that worldview is imposed on those with different worldviews. The debate is seldom over the scientific data, but the framework within which that data is interpreted.
This book hits that issue head on. If if more educators teaching science would embrace Poole's wise guidance on addressing Beliefs and Values in Science Education in an honest an open fashion we believe much of the public agnst over teaching Darwin or Design would dissipate.
Consider this quote from the preface of the book:
An Educational Model
"the sensible educator...will not expect or intend to produce an educated adult who has no beliefs, values, or attitudes, which he cannot rationally defend against all commers and who is incapable of settled convictions, deep-seated virtues, or profound loyalties. But neither will he treat his pupils in such a way as to leave them with closed minds and restricted sympathies. The process of being educated is like learning to build a house by actually building one and then having to live in the house one has built
It is a process in which the individual inevitably requires help. The extreme authoritarian helps by building the house himself according to what he believes to be the best plan and making the novice live in it. He designs it in such a way as to make it as difficult as possible for the novice to alter it. The extreme liberal leaves the novice to find his own materials and devise his own plan, for fear of exercising improper influence. The most he will do is to provide strictly technical information if asked. The sensible educator helps the novice to build the best house he can (in the light of accumulated experience). He strikes a balance between the need to produce a good house and the the desirability of letting the novice make his own choices; but he is careful that the house is designed in such a way that it can subsequently be altered and improved as the owner, no longer a novice, sees fit."
-- Professor Basil Mitchell, The Durham Report
With this model in mind, Michael Poole engages the topics of science standards; beliefs and values about science; language, concepts and models; environmental beliefs and values; cosmology and creation; the Galileo affair; and the Darwinian controversies. His approach to science education is an excellent example on how to move forward with the Darwin vs. Design controversy in a pluralistic society.
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