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ERIC Number: EJ507330
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Learning to Live with Scientific Expertise: Toward a Theory of Intellectual Communalism for Guiding Science Teaching.
Norris, Stephen P.
Science Education, v79 n2 p201-17 Apr 1995
A long-standing goal of science education is teaching students to be intellectually independent of scientific experts. This article proposes that this goal be abandoned as impossible to attain, and that it be replaced by a goal of intellectual communalism between scientists and nonscientists. (LZ)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Relationship, Role, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientists, Students
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Communication; Experts