This-essay is a7910221.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %UNBALANCED SCIENCE TEACHER 791022 Few persons are concerned in a balanced way with the content of a science and with effectively helping students learn the science. The persons who are greatly concerned with the content of a science tend to look with disdain upon concerns which are central to effectively helping students learn the science. The persons who are greatly concerned with effectively helping students learn---tend to be more concerned with the theory and mechanics of learning than with any particular science content which students might learn; or they may be focused in upon students as persons to the exclusion of having any concern about the content of any particular science. Concern for the content of science is often divorced from concerns about pedagogy. Scientists often look with disdain upon persons in teacher education departments---because they have divorced pedagogy from concern for the content of science; i.e., persons in teacher education departments are not qualified scientists and presume to teach science. Persons in teacher education departments look with disdain upon persons in science departments because they have divorced science for pedagogy. Persons in science departments are not qualified in the humane art of helping students to learn. Both scientists and persons in teacher education departments have contributed to the alienation of affection which has occasioned the divorce between concern for science content and the concern for helping students to learn in ways which do not their integrity. Exclusive self-righteousness does not reconcile the division of partners. Effective restoration of balance begins at home. Scientists need to be more concerned with finding ways to help students learn. People in teacher education departments need to become more concerned with content of science disciplines. Balance is not restored by achieving greater purity of concern. Demeaning complementary values because they have been carried to exclusive extremes does not inhibit going to such extremes. Arrogance about the purity of one's concerns breeds complementary arrogance and purity of exclusive concerns---and tends to throw everybody farther off balance. People with doctoral degrees should know better than to gain pleasure from such arrogance. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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