The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology

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González del Solar. Rafael; Marone, Luis
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2001
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In his classic work “The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research,” the historian and philosopher of science Thomas S. Kuhn (1991) asserts that natural sciences are taught almost exclusively from textbooks written especially for students at both graduate and postgraduate levels, and, as often as not, these textbooks do not describe the sorts of problems the future professional will very likely have to deal with, nor the variety of techniques available to treat them. Instead, he says, textbooks usually offer a concrete solution—the “paradigmatic” one—as a model for how to solve similar problems. Continuing, he points out that students are not encouraged to read the classical works of their field, and the learning process is a sort of dogmatic initiation in a tradition that students are not prepared to evaluate for themselves. In sum, textbooks and teachers frequently offer versions of science that—as philosophers David Hume and Karl R. Popper have shown—are unssustainable from the logical point of view (Popper 1977).
Fil: González del Solar. Rafael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; Argentina
Fil: Marone, Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; Argentina
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title The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology
spellingShingle The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology
González del Solar. Rafael
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SCIENCE
title_short The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology
title_full The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology
title_fullStr The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology
title_full_unstemmed The "freezing" of science: consequences of the dogmatic teaching of ecology
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Marone, Luis
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ECOLOGY
SCIENCE
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In his classic work “The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research,” the historian and philosopher of science Thomas S. Kuhn (1991) asserts that natural sciences are taught almost exclusively from textbooks written especially for students at both graduate and postgraduate levels, and, as often as not, these textbooks do not describe the sorts of problems the future professional will very likely have to deal with, nor the variety of techniques available to treat them. Instead, he says, textbooks usually offer a concrete solution—the “paradigmatic” one—as a model for how to solve similar problems. Continuing, he points out that students are not encouraged to read the classical works of their field, and the learning process is a sort of dogmatic initiation in a tradition that students are not prepared to evaluate for themselves. In sum, textbooks and teachers frequently offer versions of science that—as philosophers David Hume and Karl R. Popper have shown—are unssustainable from the logical point of view (Popper 1977).
Fil: González del Solar. Rafael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; Argentina
Fil: Marone, Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; Argentina
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