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     Information   dissemination   involves    an    agent
broadcasting  information.  Communication takes place when
there is both information  dissemination  and  information
reception,   even  though it be unidirectional.   Dialogue
does not take place unless there is two-way communication,
but   not  all  instances  of   two-way communication  are
dialogue.

     If  Jimmy says to Mother,  "Look at the worm I  got."
and Mother  then only says to Jimmy,  "You are dirty,   go
wash up."  there is information dissemination, and two-way
communication ---   perhaps.  But there is  not  dialogue.
Mother's   response   is  tangential  to  Jimmy's  initial
communication.   Jimmy's dominant focus of concern was the
reality  of the worm.   By refusing to enter into a mutual
awareness with Jimmy regarding the worm,  Mother helps  to
generate  a blockage to future mutual awareness and mutual
understanding.  Perhaps  Mother  is  unable  to  share  an
objective  state of consciousness with Jimmy,  because she
is reliving some  childhood anxieties which were  recalled
by  the  reality  of the worm.   Her emotional  immaturity
serves  to  block  Jimmy's future  capacity  as  an  adult
scientist.

     In  a similar way science teachers whose responses to
students'  curiosity and fears are tangential---will  tend
to  block  future  creative  activity on the part  of  the
students. The tangential responses may originate in a fear
of  the  phenomena  at  hand,   in  a  personal  sense  of
inadequacy  to  explain the phenomena at hand,  in a rigid
agenda  of topics to be covered,  in a  fear  of  intimate
relationships,   within the student,  or in other external
factors.  Whatever be the origin,  alienation is likely to
follow  tangential  responses---unless the general context
is one of authentic meeting.

     When open and honest dialogue takes  place  within  a
group  of  interacting  persons,   the  possibilities  for
stimulation of creative insights increases far beyond what
is possible when there are only two participants,  or when
communication  is unidirectional.   For this reason it  is
important that scientists  gain a mutual understanding  of
the   conditions  which  encourage  group  discussion  and
cooperative team work.

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