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After reading the article by Lee i was thinking that the author i guess is making a lot of fuss about nothing!! And what leads me to think this way is that 2 of my uncles came to U.S. more than 30 years back and both of them did their ph.ds here and one of them is teaching in U.O.R. in medical building and is doiung research and the other was teaching in an engineering college in Detroit, wrote books and was a known scientist in the university. I have 6 cousins of mine who are doctors in U.S. and 2 of them canme recently from India after completing their doctoral studies in India. And believe me it is not easy to do so. My husband is an engineer and did his masters here in US and myself am doing my Masters here. So, i guess i have a pretty good history of people i know who have been successful in the realms of science while i have not yet counted my 2nd cousins and my friends..Infact myexperience has been great as far as acceptance is concerned. i worked for almost 2 years in medical bulding of UOR and did research and my opinions and knowledge has always been respected. OK, for the people who don’t know me, i am an indian and been in US for just 5 years.In the article by Norris and Phillips, i was fascinated by something sideline to the main article that is-the views about literacy.it istrue that if we ask the question that what is literacy-many people would define it to be ‘reading and writing’. But there is a lot more to it.Literacy is about being able to understand what the author is trying to say in the text, the meaning behind it.and for this matter, it may not only be a text, it may be a picture or some other form of representation of one’s thoughts. so, literacy is more about understanding each other and about building knowledge. and it was fascinating how the author linked this to the field of science!! The article by Shammos was thought provoking for me!! And i came to the conclusion that may be that i have not much experience in the field of sciencve teaching so i don’t know much of the facts presented here but from the facts that are presented i was cought by one main idea that what is the prpose of science in schools??to make scientifically literate students or to attract students in to science or both??
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