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     Each person seeks to fulfill and thus maintain  their
individual self-image.   If the self-image is  essentially
one  of static identity then personal change is  difficult
if  not impossible---until there is a change in the  self-
image.    But the assumed self-image is of such  a  nature
that  it  will resist any change in itself and so  in  the
self.   To help such a person grow,  i.e.,  change,  it is
essential to facilitate a change in the self-image.  Major
changes are impossible at first.  The way out is for  self
to experience external encouragement and support when even
minor  changes  are  attempted.   Great  hazards  are  not
attempted  unless  emotional security  is  experienced  in
dealing  with lesser hazards.   Thus human growth is  made
possible by a fail-safe context.

     The self-image may lack integrity.  It may shift back
and forth between possibilities in a dynamic process which
lacks  coherence or stability---perhaps due  to  disparate
messages recorded in earlier years of life.

     If  the  self-image  is  in  dynamic  stability  then
personal change will be the normal process.   There can be
genuine personal identity and integrity.

     Helpful science education involves the development of
a  dynamic self-image which differs from that  typical  of
non-scientists.  Individuals who start life with a  static
self-image  will  thus find it difficult  to  meaningfully
participate  in  helpful  science  education.   They  may,
however,   submit  to technical training and acquire  well
defined  skills and bodies of knowledge--and  thus  become
technicians or technocrats.

     For  anyone  to  be a real person who is  a  creative
scientist  requires  an integrity of self-image  which  is
uncommon  to  date.    The incarnation of a  synthesis  of
rationality  and  arationality is rare.  For  this  reason
there  are relatively few attractive scientists serving as
teachers,  and science courses attract relatively few real
students.    The improvement of science  instruction  will
require  non-technical solutions to human problems.    The
expenditure of scarce resources to implement  technocrats'
solutions  to the problems of science instruction will not
be  helpful,   but rather will intensify the  technocratic
society.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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