Student Scientist Partnerships: Shrewd Maneuvers

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing, that keeps bright people at it, and that ought to be at the center of science teaching. I believe that the worst thing that has happened to science education is that the great fun has gone out of it--Very few see science as the high...

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Published inJournal of science education and technology Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 111 - 117
Main Author Tinker, Robert F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Plenum Publishing Corporation 01.06.1997
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aircraft maneuvers
Collaboration
Cooperation
Data Analysis
Data Collection
Educational Change
Educational standards
Elementary Secondary Education
Informal learning
Information technology
Inquiry
Instrumentation
Investigations
Maneuvers
Observational research
Partnerships
Partnerships in Education
Science education
Science Instruction
Scientific Research
Scientists
Strangeness
Teachers
Technology
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Summary:It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing, that keeps bright people at it, and that ought to be at the center of science teaching. I believe that the worst thing that has happened to science education is that the great fun has gone out of it--Very few see science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to catch close views of things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. (Thomas, 1981)
ISSN:1059-0145
1573-1839
DOI:10.1023/A:1025613914410