Subjectivity

"Because most of our knowledge of science is communicated to us as finished and accepted facts or theories, that is, as "final form presentation of science", we do not have any knowledge of the process of "private science," which is influenced and bounded by social, intellectual, metaphysical, and creative processes that most of us would believe to be quite "unscientific".

Thus, in examining the world of the scientist, I find that the interpersonal--that is, talk and the laboratory--is linked with ideas that emerge from the purely personal playground of imagination and wonder. The very private musing of a child finds its origins in wonder and may eventually be transformed through reflection, dialogue, and finally collaboration into a question and ultimately a theory about the world. These are the seeds that the classroom can nurture and build upon as teachers and children mutually engage in the world of science."

Amen.