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I have no advice to give, really (except that my cultural studies students get really upset if you say you don't know something, so I bet biology students will be even more upset), but I wondered if there'd be interest in starting a more general/theoretical thread on this topic?
I'm thinking about the transmissibility of scientific knowledge at the moment, due to the "feminism & SM" thread, and was reminded of learning science at school: they'd make you do experiments so that you could "find out for yourself" that, say, water always boils at 100 degrees C. My water, of course, boiled at no such temperature but fluctuated around 101-102, at which point I was informed that "something must have gone wrong in the experiment" and that my results were invalidated by the "fact" that water always boils at 100. Which is a really, really sucky way of demonstrating the usefulness of experimentation (though I appreciate my school didn't really have time or resources to devote to ensuring that I personally could successfully replicate much-demonstrated results).
Ahem. Anyway, I'd be interested to know what sort of theory-practice balance you're planning to have and how you might negotiate the sorts of problems that might arise. |
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