The Myth of Scientific Literacy
- ISBN-10
- 0813559499
- ISBN-13
- 9780813559490
- Category
- Literacy
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Author
- Morris Herbert Shamos
Description
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.
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