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%OBJECTIVE TEACHING OF SCIENCE STUDENTS-1 840901
To be an object is to be observed without mutuality,
dialogue of equality with the observer. An object does
not relate the observer in the way that the observer
relates to an object. The roles of object and observer
are different. There is a lack of symmetry. The nature
and behavior of an object is understood, predicted and
controlled by an observer, not vice versa. To be an
object is to be manipulated.
An observer is not subject to the analysis,
manipulation, understanding, predictions and control of
the object. The dominant behavior is the role of the
subject, the submissive behavior is the role of the
object. Semantic confusion results from the fact that the
object is subjected to objective behavior by the person
who observes the object. However, when one person treats
another person as object---the object is called the
subject---when the one person is subjected to objective
behavior on the part of the other person. The words
traditionally used to designate roles tend to confuse the
nature of the roles, by reversing the names assigned to
roles when the object is a person; rather than an
object which does not object to being subjected to
playing the passive role of being analyzed,
manipulated, understood, predicted and controlled.
When one person behaves objectively towards another
person and the person who is subjected to such objective
behavior accepts the passive role of subject of that
objective behavior, the subject becomes as an object that
does not participate equally with the observer. The roles
of the two persons are different. There is a lack of
symmetry, mutuality, balance, and equality of power. That
lack biases the relationship---so as to favor the
person playing the role of observer. Objective
relationships among people are biased relationships.
Objectivity is not a means to unbiased understanding among
peoples.
People who approach each other objectively can not
develop unbiased consensuses---because in
objective relationships some people play dominant roles
and other people play submissive roles. Power is not
shared equally and so power corrupts the process of
understanding, predicting and control. Any "consensus"
which forms is biased in favor of the most powerful
person's set of perceptions, desires, emotions, fears,
etc.
These considerations are central to any understanding
of the process of science education and the respective
unbalanced roles played by teachers and students.
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