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              %JUDGMENTS OF SELF-REFERENTIAL IDEALS 840220

     We are reluctant to help develop new ideals which may
turn upon us and occasion judgment of us in terms of  such
new  ideals.    We are unlikely to fare well in  terms  of
really  new  ideals  which  challenge  old  ideals  in   a
fundamental way.  It is almost sure to be more comfortable
for  us  if  we  do not help  generate  fundamentally  new
ideals.

     Science teaching has traditionally been dominated  by
the  same  ideals which dominate science  research.    The
traditional  training which is regarded as the  basis  for
certification  for a university professorship is the  work
leading   to the Ph.D,  ---  pure research leading to  the
creation of new   objective  knowledge  about    objective
realities.   Persons   as   persons  and  their  reflexive
relationships  are not the focus of  such  research.   The
required  focus  of  training for college  and  university
teaching does not involve dealing with persons as persons,
or  with  the development of skills which are  central  to
helping  persons learn science with personal and  communal
integrity.

     The  development  of new ideals for science  teachers
must involve scientists in self-referential activities for
which they have not been trained,  and for which they have
no   comfortable   role  models.    Scientists  who   have
internalized  the scientists'  ideals of objectivity  find
they threaten those ideals they most value if they  engage
in self-referential activities.   It makes little sense to
them  to  suggest that they violate their  own  ideals  of
objectivity to  engage in the development of non-objective
ideals   for  the   improvement  of  the  teaching  of   a
discipline  which  has objectivity as one of  its  highest
ideals.
                                                                                                                               
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