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     Personal  relationships are essentially reflexive  in
character;   thus participants in  personal  relationships
cannot  be  objective about their participation  in  their
personal  relationships.  For an observer to be  objective
requires that the observer  draw  back from the object  of
the observation, and be  detached from  the  object of the
observation.   The participant in a personal  relationship
cannot be detached from the relationship within which  the
observer is presently involved.  Thus objectivity about  a
present  personal relationship is impossible in the  sense
of objectivity about objects which are "obeying" objective
scientific laws of process.

     The objective paradigms of scientists do not  provide
open  and honest guidance to scientists who are trying  to
be objective---about ways  to cooperate and to participate
in  effective  science education programs;  for  effective
cooperation  and education entail involvement in  personal
relationships. To the extent that scientists look to their
objective paradigms for  guidance  in how to cooperate and
how to  participate  in  science education programs---they
are mislead. To the extent that scientist think and behave
as  if  their   objective  paradigms  serve them  well  in
providing  guidance  in  how  to  cooperate  and  how   to
participate   in  science  education  programs---they  are
participants  in collusive games  of mutual self deception
which   are   highly   reflexive/non-objective    personal
processes.

     Cooperation and education both entail educement;  the
drawing  out of people through conversation  and  dialogue
which is reflexive.  Neither cooperation nor educement  is
an objective process whereby an actor acts upon objects in
an  objective way and observes in a detached  way  how the
objects behave in objective relationships.  To participate
significantly  and meaningfully in  scientific cooperation
and education means to  be involved in conversations which
may convert the participants; in dialogue which may change
the   participants.   If  the  assumption  is   that   the
participant scientists are not going to be changed through
the process, then the stage is set  for collusive games of
mutual self deception. How can "objective observers" learn
anything from their observations if  they  are not changed
by   their  observations?   To learn is to change,  to  be
changed by the process of observation.  The concept of the
objective observer is in some sense an oxymoron, and those
people who believe in the concept are not well informed.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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