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- Title: Compare, Compare (Biology TODAY)
- Author : The American Biology Teacher
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 164 KB
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About 10 years ago, my university instituted a new core curriculum. Among the courses created for it was "Scientific Inquiry." It's the only required science course in the core, and, much to my chagrin, it is not required of science majors, the assumption being that these students learn all about how science is done in their major courses. I personally think this is a dicey assumption, having been a science major myself and having learned about how science is done only after I graduated and began to teach. However, I have no power, so this is the way things stand, and this is really my only serious problem with the course, which I have come to enjoy, love, savor (if only my students would). As the title implies, this course emphasizes what scientists do rather than a particular body of knowledge. But scientists always work on a specific problem, so the course needs to focus on some disciplinary area, and that area varies depending on whether the course is taught by a biologist, chemist, physicist, or geologist. Each discipline focuses on a major theory, and for biologists this is obviously evolution. Needless to say, I had taught about evolution long before this course was developed, but not in as much detail, and not with the emphasis on how evolutionary biology can explicate the processes of science.