Teaching the process of science: What gets in the way?

Source	http://unfoldingscience.blogspot.com/2013/12/teaching-process-of-science-what-gets.html
Author	Julia Mossbridge
Published	2013-12-07, 04:36 PM
Summary	Ask scientists what's wrong with the way we teach science, and high up on the list is that we teach facts derived from science, but we often fail to teach the process of science itself. Why do we fail in this way? At higher levels, we blame the lower levels -- elementary, middle school and high school teachers who only understand facts but not the methodology. At lower levels, the higher levels are blamed -- college and university professors who write textbooks and lab guides that don't convey t
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