Abstract. The educational controversies that Martin Eger discusses regarding moral education and the teaching of “creationism” arise from taking a single aspect of moral education and making it the whole, and from taking a single aspect of scientific work and assuming that it is the whole. The distinction between teaching science as application and teaching it as education is crucial in confronting these problems.
pedagogy, tradition, moral education, autonomy, formalism, indoctrination
Green, T., (1988) “A TALE OF TWO CONTROVERSIES: COMMENT”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 23(3), 341–346. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00638.x
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