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Dr. Greg VanDoren Takes Science
Classes into the Community
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Into the Community with Reciprocal Learning
"For the past ten years, I have been back inside the ivory towers, a certified secondary science teacher and professor who has taught nearly 30 different university science courses, the PI of a mjaor NSF-STEP grant. I learned to assimilate youth into Western Science, and am very good at it...but to what end? Where are the university faculty willing to adapt to the cultures around them? Is it detachment or fear? Out there, control is...not always in the hands of faculty; as a learner, the one who is usually the teacher often becomes unvomfortable, won't risk embarrassment, is unwilling to adapt. Many become nervous observers, but observation is not the same as experience, and most return to the towers never having tasted the water."
-- Dr. Greg VanDoren, Assistant Professor of Science, Heritage University, during a faculty presentation on November 17, 2010