Against Science Education: the Aims of Science Education and Their Connection to School Science Curricula
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To clarify: in this chapter I will speak only of compulsory science education in schools; much of what I say will not transfer across to either science electives in schools or to undergraduate science. Such science education, like all compulsory education, is an exercise in force against students. Overriding individual autonomy in this way is not to be lightly done and should involve appeal to aims that are of sufficient importance for the individual, or the group/society, to outweigh such loss of freedom over one's own mind's contents. Moreover, the loss of freedom is guaranteed; in order to outweigh it, the benefits aimed at should not just be of sufficient moral importance but be attainable with sufficient probability for a suffient proportion of students. Finally, to justify the imposition of science education requires not just the probable achievement of ends that are of sufficient importance to outweigh the loss of freedom that is their cost but the absence of better candidates that might occupy the same "time-slot" of lost
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تاریخ انتشار 2008