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          %TRANSCENDING SPECIALISTS BIASES TEACHERS 830928

     Teachers  of any technical discipline are ineffective
if they are not interested in and enthusiastic about their
discipline  as  a  specialty.  To be effective  they  must
honestly  believe  in  the  ideals  of  their  specialized
discipline.  They must be effective communicators of their
interest,  enthusiasm,  and belief in the ideals of  their
discipline.   Such personal communication depends upon the
quality  of inter-personal relationships, as  much as upon
technical qualification.   Purely technical qualifications
are not  the  basis  for  effectively participating in the
kinds of interpersonal relationships which communicate the
interest,  enthusiasm and beliefs of a  specialist  to the
next generation  that may keep the specialty alive.   Such
communication  depends critically upon a  healthy  balance
between      technical      and      personal-relationship
qualifications.   The people prone  to be highly qualified
in technical skills are unlikely to be highly qualified in
personal-relationship skills.    They  are  prone to think
that   the  effective  teachers  are  effective  primarily
because of their technical  skills---and  not perceive the
essential   role  which  is  played  by   balance  between
technical   skills   and   personal-relationship   skills.
Research specialists who are highly qualified in technical
skills emphasize  additional training in technical  skills
as  being the key to improving the  effectiveness  of  the
teaching of science.  In our technocratic society research
scientists in graduate schools  who have both this kind of
bias and the political  power  to  make their bias  be the
basis  in  efforts to improve the teaching of  science  in
schools  from  the  lowest age groups to the  highest  age
groups.

     For  us to transcend the crisis in science  education
we must find ways to transcend all such systematic  biases
of specialists whose  perspectives are so narrow that they
do  not  perceive  their own  biases.    We  must  promote
dialogue among specialists with all kinds of bias.   To do
this we must  overcome their tendency to be alienated from
each other due to their biases.

                                                                                                                               
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