|
Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 27, 2021 6:21:53 GMT 12
WHAT IS WESTERN SCIENCE?Proposals for NCEA science risk taking our curriculum down a rabbit hole at a time when the Government should be focused on turning around our declining achievement in science, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “An equally important question is what is meant by the statement, ‘the two world views and bodies of knowledge (mātauranga putaiao and so-called western science) are separate and need to be considered separately. One should not be given greater status than the other – both have authority.’ “Is the Government telling our children that the collective wisdom of all the cultures of the globe, over millennia and up to today, what we might call modern science, should be given no greater authority in the subject of science than the insights and traditions of one culture?..... www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2107/S00191/what-is-western-science.htm
|
|