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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe CONNECTED KNOWLEDGE: SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND EDUCATION * _Alan Cromer_ Oxford University Press: 1997. Pp. 221 $25, £19.99 Alan Cromer is a

man with a mission. A self-described “optimistic know-it-all”, he wants US science education to shape up and abandon constructivism and other trends that he feels are not only failing to

educate young Americans but are also mis-educating them. As in his earlier book, _Uncommon Sense_ (Oxford University Press, 1993), he presents science as a non-intuitive way of knowing about

phenomena whose causes are not obvious. To learn how the world works requires systematic introduction of principles that build upon one another. Scientific understanding is based on

feedback between theory and experience, spiralling up to a more complete understanding of nature. He blends this philosophy of science with the teaching of science, taking us through quantum

physics, the nature of the social sciences, his personal theory of human social organization, a history of education, some idiosyncratic views of learning theory, an even more idiosyncratic

commentary on genetics, race, class and IQ, and finally his recommendations for reorganizing US science education. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

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