Science Education: Our Professional Responsibility

Our Responsibility?

have to take the Broad Street line and change at Willesden or go up to town by bus. The District trains won't be running for some while." A fair-haired woman standing nearby murmured: "How inconsiderate," and then laughed nervously, probably regretting her words. I thought of the man or woman lying on the track, perhaps killed outright, dying or maimed, for the station official would not really...

Food Science Education, Research, and Professional Development

In the Neolithic Age (10 000–3000 BC) humans transitioned from hunter–gatherer to cultivation of crops and domestication of animals for food. As they entered the Bronze Age, humans learned from practical experience about food preparation and shifted some of their plant and animal exploitations to make a variety of foods some of which could be stored for long periods. Although there was little i...

Professional Responsibility When Lawyering

Responsibility, Complexity Science and Education: Dilemmas and Uncertain Responses

While complexity science is gaining interest among educational theorists, its constructs do not speak to educational responsibility or related core issues in education of power and ethics. Yet certain themes of complexity, as taken up in educational theory, can help unsettle the more controlling and problematic discourses of educational responsibility such as the potential to limit learning and...

Our Responsibility to Our Research Participants.

As the readers of this journal know all too well, conducting a study takes a lot of time, energy, commitment, and, most of all, work. I do not have to list the myriad steps that need to be taken, often with delays in between, to take a study from good idea to analysis. There are often sweat and tears, if not blood, and, at the end of the process, there may be exhaustion. Then the piles of paper...