ABSTRACT
1.1. In this chapter I shall, after dwelling on a number of other germane matters, move forward to raise and arrange a selection of questions and of possible answers about the study of science in secondary schools and universities, and in other educational institutions and settings that offer values similar in kind to theirs. For simplicity and definiteness I shall largely limit myself to English 1 conditions; there are, I recognize, other, and more varied, possible frameworks and contexts. The reader can go quite a long way towards overcoming the limitations of my presentation by taking seriously the select bibliography which I have appended at the end; this bibliography should be regarded as an integral part of the contents of this chapter: the discourse that precedes it can hardly be more than a foreword to such further reading—prolegomena to the philosophy of education concerning science.
