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Planets, Pulsars, And Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S.B. Yorka
S.B. Yorka*
Affiliation:
Denison University, Granville, Ohio 43023, U.S.A.

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For many of us in the United States, the majority of our students are in descriptive astronomy classes. And since these classes typically satisfy general education or core curriculum requirements that must be completed by all students, the students can range from those genuinely interested in astronomy to those who are taking the class because “it sounded less boring” than other options available. Whichever end of that spectrum the students occupy, many of them approach astronomy with quite a bit of anxiety because it is a science class. In student lore, a science class is a class that is by definition more difficult — perhaps verging on the impossible — than other classes, one that discusses totally foreign things in an arcane language and, above all, is a class that has no connection with anything else in the curriculum, except maybe another science class.

Type
2. Astronomy and Culture
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 105: The Teaching of Astronomy , 1990 , pp. 57 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

References

Reading List

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