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GLOSSARY INQUIRY: SCIENCE
A rational, systematic, and disciplined approach to the production of knowledge.
Historically, science has been closely aligned with the Modernist project of uncovering certain, eternal and universal truths about human beings and the universe. The primary method used to uncover these truths has been reductionism and so most scientific research in the past few centuries can be characterized as analytic science. In recent years, other, more post-modern, approaches to the disciplined production of knowledge have been increasingly pursued in order to understand phenomena that elude the grasp of traditional analytic methods. These newer approaches, which are intended to complement traditional methods, take issues related to identity, culture and the place of the observer very seriously.
Education has always been, and continues to be, deeply influenced by developments in science and what it defines as legitimate knowledge and research.
