Reshaping the Teaching of Science: A Scientist's Perspective
Geoffrey P. Dobson School of Molecular Sciences, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, James Cook University of North Queensland, Queensland, Australia 4811
Any concerted effort to reshape the teaching of science must contain the message that the very essence of science does not lie in its permanence, but in its refinement toward greater learning and understanding about the physical universe and our place in it. One of the big lessons of the 20th century is that scientific truths are not necessarily Natures' truths but human truths; they are ways of bringing our sense-experience into an objective system of thought and assembly in the form of concepts, conceptual schemes and physical laws.
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