May 14, 2004
Science Is a Social Enterprise
One of the goals of science education in the United States is to produce citizens who are scientifically literate -- that is, able to understand and contribute to discussions of the uses of scientific knowledge, so that they can help make science socially responsible. However, science education today reflects the biases of science itself with regard to race, class, and gender. In the West, scientists are predominantly white and male, and science values "masculine" attributes like
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