The myth of scientific literacy:
Why do we make every schoolchild and college student take science? Does every American really need to be scientifically literate? In this provocative book, Morris Shamos, a physicist and science educator of very broad experience, argues that universal scientific literacy is a futile goal, and urges...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Why do we make every schoolchild and college student take science? Does every American really need to be scientifically literate? In this provocative book, Morris Shamos, a physicist and science educator of very broad experience, argues that universal scientific literacy is a futile goal, and urges a critical review of the purpose of general education in science. Shamos argues that a meaningful scientific literacy cannot be achieved in the first place, and the attempt is a misuse of human resources on a grand scale. He is skeptical about forecasts of "critical shortfalls in scientific manpower" and about the motives behind crash programs to get more young people into the science pipeline. Finally, he is convinced that, as presently taught, the vast majority of students come out of science classes with neither an intellectual grasp nor a pragmatic appreciation of science Shamos advocates instead a practical science education curriculum that grants the impossibility of every American's learning enough science to make independent judgments about major scientific issues. Rather than giving children the heavy diet of scientific terms and facts they now get, he would emphasize: an appreciation of science as an ongoing cultural enterprise; an awareness of technology's impact on one's personal health, safety, and surroundings; and the need to use experts wisely in resolving science/society issues |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 261 S. |
| ISBN: | 0813521963 |
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| adam_text | THE MYTH OF SCIENTIFIC LITERACY A MORRIS H. SHAMOS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY CONTENTS FOREWORD LX BY MARY BUDD ROWE
PREFACE XI CHAPTER 1 1 A CRISIS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION? CHAPTER 2 23
PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE CHAPTER 3 45 THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER 4 73 THE SCIENTIFIC LITERACY MOVEMENT CHAPTER 5 101 THE TWO
CULTURES *AND A THIRD CHAPTER 6 129 RECENT APPROACHES TO SCIENTIFIC
LITERACY CHAPTER 7 157 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERACY VII VIII
CONTENTS CHAPTER 8 189 HOW MUCH SCIENTIFIC LITERACY IS REALLY NEEDED?
CHAPTER 9 215 CONCLUSIONS * AND THE ROAD TO A POSSIBLE SOLUTION EPILOGUE
229 NOTES 239 INDEX 253
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