“Science has often presented itself, intentionally or unintentionally as a "truer" or even the true way of talking about the world. In science classrooms, except for rare occasions, this is the way science is taught and presented. Not as a way of talking about the world, but as the way the world is.”

— Jay Lemke

Source: Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values. 1990, p. 126

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