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%SCIENCE TEACHERS AVOID PERSONAL RELATIONS 800216
Science teacher at the college, university, and
graduate school level have been trained primarily to do
objective research. Virtually none of them have received
any training in the art/science of helping students to
learn and grow. Given their analytic/objective
orientation it is not surprising that they tend to try to
avoid phenomena which can not be understood via their
analytic/objective methodology. Each person seeks to deal
with phenomena which is understandable in terms of their
own language and familiar categories. People tend to
avoid situations which seriously threaten their most
fundamental world-view. Thus science teachers in higher
education tend to focus their attention upon phenomena
which can be understood through analysis and objective
considerations, for that is what they have been taught to
engage in and value.
Intimate personal relationships cannot be understood
objectively through analysis. The scientists' kind of
understanding is not meaningful with regards to intimate
personal relationships, and is often violent towards them.
Thus scientists experience frustration and threat when
confronted with the reflexive complexities of intimate
personal relationships. The embarrassment which such
encounters with intimacy occasion tends to motivate
aversive reactions in the future. Thus many scientists
seek their success in the laboratory where objectivity and
analysis are means to systematic understanding upon which
all of like mind can agree.
The science teacher is in an embarrassing situation.
Trained to deal analytically with objects, the science
teacher must also deal with students as persons who expect
to be dealt with as whole persons, and sometimes even wish
for some measure of affection and intimacy in personal
relationships with teachers. But the long years of
intensive specialization tend to discourage the living of
balanced lives, and by the time the assistant
professorship is achieved the scientist is out of touch
with people as whole persons. Promotion does not come
through entering into balanced personal relationships, it
comes through the performance of scientific rituals of
experimentation, objectification, analysis, ensymbolment,
and publication. Thus the scientist avoids personal
relationships in order not to be disturbed and distracted
from the primary task of producing more impersonal
knowledge.
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