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No answer on this, Tony? Let me try to contact some Japanese colleagues for help. mike On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > This question doesn't pertain to any current thread, although it does > pertain to certain institutionalized discourses and activity-systems. (It's > hard to be completely off-topic with this list!) > > I thought of sending it to certain people who I thought might have answers, > but then I thought it's possible that there would be some wider interest. > > My question: What's the difference between "kagaku" and "rika," two > Japanese words that are both translated into English as "science"? > For more elaboration of the question, see > http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/rika-kagaku/ > > I'd be interested in anything on this -- including how students and > non-educators and non-scientists understand these terms. > > This is relevant as an example bearing on the question of relationships > between academic disciplines and school subjects. It also has more > particular relevance to the question of teaching evolution in the public > schools. I tried to keep the question more naive on the blog so as not to > influence responses I might get. > > Please feel free to respond by leaving a comment on the blog post, or > responding to me off-list via email, or replying here on xmca if others > would be interested. > > Thanks in advance (I recall that "thanks in advance" was itself a topic > generating considerable response here once.). > > Tony Whitson > UD School of Education > NEWARK DE 19716 > > twhitson@udel.edu > _______________________________ > > "those who fail to reread > are obliged to read the same story everywhere" > -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970) > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca