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Diverse Structures, Same Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Donat G. Wentzel
Donat G. Wentzel*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A.

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This is truly an international gathering, as befits the IAU. We have a wide range of educational backgrounds. Most of us hope to adapt each others’ ideas to suit our own needs. That adaption will be much easier if we appreciate each others’ individual circumstances, and especially if we know something about each others’ different educational systems. To ease the exchange of information, I shall outline two very different educational schemes. I shall call them the “traditional” and the “U.S.” system. I suspect that about half of us will identify more closely with the traditional system, and half with the U.S. system.

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Prologue
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 105: The Teaching of Astronomy , 1990 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990