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%MUTUAL AWARENESS 731014
Effective science education is impossible without
mutual awareness on the part of the self and other of
common realities and processes, including those involving
the self and other. It is an exercise in futility for self
to try to explain to other the nature of a reality which
other can not perceived as real, even if only in
imagination. It is likewise an exercise in futility for
self to try to explain to other the nature of a reality if
the self and other are not in dialogue --- perhaps due to
being in differing states of consciousness. If either be
the case, where must one start?
It is not possible for the self and other to enter
into a mutual understanding of reality until they have a
mutual awareness of what is real to the self and other.
Thus there must first be an effort towards dialogue in
which self and other find each other pointing to realities
in an effort to develop a mutual awareness of what is real
to self and other. In setting priorities mutual awareness
must come first, before mutual understanding.
Too often science educators have unilaterally
selected priorities which have focused on what they
regarded as the relevant fundamentals of science.
Tragically the selection criteria pertained almost
exclusively to the structure of theoretical analysis ---
without considering and caring for students' previous
science relevant experiences and/or students'
developmental stages. There has not been a mutual
awareness of what is real to self and other. As a result
there has been much scientific information dissemination
but little communication, and even less dialogue between
scientists and non-scientists. Intensified programs of
scientific information dissemination will only add to the
confusion which the past flood of information has
generated. We need new questions which will shed light on
the new problems and dilemmas which the flood of
scientific information has generated.
Traditional scientists do not have the freedom to
articulate nor the freedom to choose to try to respond to
these radically new questions. Such questions are more
likely to be incarnate in the views and attitudes of
attractive scientists who are free to enter into intimate
relationships with non-scientists.
(c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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