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%OBJECTIVE TEACHING OF SCIENCE STUDENTS-2 840901
It is not the role of an objective observer to
discuss his or her role with the object which is to be
manipulated, analyzed, predicted and controlled. Such
a discussion of roles presumes equality and mutuality and
is inappropriate to a relationship in which the power
to control the relationship is vested in the
objective observer. To surrender that power to
control the relationship would be regarded as a failure
of commitment to objectivity, and would be severely
criticized by other observers who have a personal stake in
retaining their power to manipulate and control
objects that behave in predictable ways. These
considerations are central to any understanding of the
process of science education, and the respective roles
played by students and teachers who are committed to
avoiding bias through faithfully playing the roles which
characterized objective relationships.
Self-referential analysis which is without bias is
taboo to people who are committed to playing the roles
which characterize objective relationships. In one form
of self-referential analysis a person is cast in the role
of observer, and the same person is cast in the role of
object of that observer's observations. Such casting,
and any script calling for such casting, is absurd and
internally inconsistent to anyone committed to playing
only objective relationship roles. To try to play such a
pair of roles simultaneously---is to discover the
injustices and structural biases which are inherent in
people treating each other objectively. People who regard
objectivity as the supreme ideal---can not bear to make
that discovery, or to surrender the biases which endow
observer/analysts with more power than is granted to
people cast in the role of objects.
In a less obvious form of self-referential analysis,
a person tries to objectively understand, predict
and control a loved one who is near and dear. Such
efforts undermine the integrity of the non-objective
relationship, and call into question the ultimate
importance which some people place upon objective
relationships. People who are ultimately committed to
objective relationships can not bear to engage in
honest self-referential analysis; and to avoid
occasions of it will avoid intimacy and
relationships characterized by love and personal
integrity.
It is no wonder there is a crisis in science
education!
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