I enjoyed your Opinion page in the Oct. 18, 1993, issue, written by six students from the University of Miami [R. Andreasen, et al., page 11]. Their perspective, their diagnosis, and their recommen- dation for treatment of high school education is insightful and, from my experience, most appropriate. Our own small effort, the Center for Integrated Science Education at the University of Utah, is focused on applying most of their recommendations at the elemen- tary and junior high level. We have found that the teachers and the public education community in general are very responsive to our initiatives and generally want to enhance the educational experience for their students.
A major part of the problem in major research universities is the way science is taught. At our institution, we are so stringently organized along departmental lines that only the most interdisciplinary individuals have an interest in looking at science in...
Interested in reading more?
Become a Member of
Receive full access to digital editions of The Scientist, as well as TS Digest, feature stories, more than 35 years of archives, and much more!
