This is http://www.essayz.com/a9105243.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SCIENCE PROFESSOR TEACH STUDENT VALUE IDEAL OBJECT 910524 No science professor who is involved in fulfilling teaching responsibilities can be systematically objective in fulfilling all professional duties. The processes involved in making assignments, evaluating students' performances, grading tests/papers and in favoring some students more than others students are all reflexive processes which are essentially non- objective in nature. In such reflexive processes decisions are made which are guided as much by ideals and values as by technical considerations. Scientists who have different ideals and values are bound by their differences in ideals and values to make different decisions in making assignments, in evaluating students, and in choosing which students to favor with extra attention and considerations. Such decisions are not driven by objective and technical considerations, but by reflexive considerations which are quite personal in nature. Scientists who are engaged in instructional activities cannot evaluate the success of their students without in the process reflecting upon their own success in relating effectively to their students in efforts to help students overcome their learning difficulties. How scientists evaluate their students reflects upon their own system of ideals and values; and so is a reflexive process, not an objective process. Their embarrassment in the process reflects upon their inability to engage in reflexive relationships in helpful ways with personal and communal integrity. The failure of science professors to discuss these embarrassing realities openly and honestly reflects upon their lack of an integrative paradigm as regards reflexive realities. Neither they nor others can be objective about this failure, and so consideration of the transcendence of the failure cannot occur within the scientists' objective paradigm. We need to examine the extent to which scientists' paradigm enables/undermines their ability to reflect honestly upon their instructional behaviors and how it affects other people through personal and objective relationships which scientists prefer to enter into. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================