Jay:
The Nespor book was titled "Knowledge in Motion" on Falmer Press I believe
and the two groups were physics undergrads and management undergrads. A
very 'telling' insight into the experiences of the physics students, I can
say with some authority.
I agree on the issue of 'brainwashing' the next generation. Nespor's book
and other experiences in 'the profession' of physics and physics education
lead me to see science/physics education as more of a vocational filtering
and indoctrination process than an educative process. I've been gathering
notes to write up this view for a while and have given a couple of talks
about it. Guess it's time to commit it to a manuscript for publication.
Dewey
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are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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