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This approach allows you, the student, to follow the process of discovery, deliberation, and argument that scientists use to form their theories. It allows you to evaluate answers to scientific questions on your own and form your own conclusions. Our goal in using this approach is to expose you to the discoveries, evidence, and arguments that are shaping the current debates over the modern version of Darwinâs theory, and to encourage you to think deeply and critically about them.</p> 856 857 858 859<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Why use the inquiry-based approach?<a name="why"></a></h3> 860 861 862 863<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The inquiry-based approach to education has a number of advantages. First, by enabling you to think critically about scientific theories and ideas, the inquiry-based approach will prepare you to be a better, more informed citizen. You will soon be asked to decide on many political and personal issues that involve scienceâdebates about stem-cell research, decisions about personal medical care, and issues of environmental policy. Teaching scientific ideas openly and critically not only helps prepare you for possible careers in science, but it helps you learn to make informed decisions about such issues.</p> 864 865 866 867<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The second advantage to inquiry-based education is that students typically enjoy science more when itâs taught this way. Scientific conclusions donât just pop up fully-formed from a lifeless collection of facts, so why would we teach science that way? Instead, the inquiry-based approach teaches about the arguments scientists <em>have</em> had, and <em>are</em> having, about current theories in light of the evidence. This allows you to do what scientists do — think and argue about how best to interpret evidence.</p> 868 869 870 871<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
871Third, many science educators are convinced that students gain a better understanding of a subject if they are taught about the arguments that scientists have in the process of formulating their theories. For this reason, the educational standards of several countries now encourage this approach.</p> 872 873 874 875<p class="wp-block-paragraph">United States federal education policy, for example, calls for teaching students about competing views of controversial scientific issues. As the U.S. Congress has stated, â[W]here topics are taught that may generate controversy (such as biological evolution), the curriculum should help students to understand the full range of views that exist.â* In the United Kingdom, the National Curriculum for Key Stage 4 Science currently recommends that, âPupils should be taught how scientific controversies can arise from different ways of interpreting empirical evidence (for example, Darwinâs theory of evolution).â</p> 876 877 878 879<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Controversies in science are nothing new. As recently as the early 1960s, for example, most geologists accepted the âgeosynclinal theoryâ as the explanation of how mountain ranges form. After a significant period of controversy, most scientists came to accept the theory of plate tectonics because it provided a better explanation for a larger number of scientific observations. Yet without understanding the arguments that led to the acceptance of plate tectonics, it is very difficult to understand the theory itself or its current standing in the scientific community.</p> 880 881 882 883<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
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