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The resistance to more humanistic forms of science education

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This response to Tom Bryce’s paper aims to supplement some of the critical points made regarding the imbalance between content, process, and context in today’s science education curriculum in higher learning institutions. Discussion and examples of how the present student-mentor relationship fosters tribe mentality are also included. However a caution is also suggested against the treatment of science as a purely subjective process, overrun by self-interested and exclusive parties.

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Rodriguez, B. The resistance to more humanistic forms of science education. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 5, 621–624 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-010-9268-4

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