The last twenty-five years have seen unprecedented growth in the application of science in critical areas of human endeavor. Explosive acceleration in the rate of growth of learning has created unquestioned benefits but it has also served as a catalyst for social, economic, and political changes of a disturbing nature. Too often there has not been time enough to assimilate the new learning or to reach agreement on the use of powerful new technologies.
How have educators responded to the need to prepare young people to live with, create, and control change? In Ontario the response...
The last twenty-five years have seen unprecedented growth in the application of science in critical areas of human endeavor. Explosive acceleration...
Values--those intangible guideposts--serve as standards and perceptual screens which assist us in selecting our priorities for reflection and action. Our quest is to clarify, compare, and form values expressed in defensible and consistent value judgements and actions.
Values--those intangible guideposts--serve as standards and perceptual screens which assist us in selecting our priorities for reflection and action. ...