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NOTES

1. Cited in Leggo, 1997.

2. Prigogine, 1996: 189.

3. Martin-Smith, 1995: 35.

4. L'Engle, 1978.

5. Doll, 1993.

6. Prigogine & Stengers, 1984.

7. Griffin, 1988.

8. Gablik, 1991.

9. Moore, 1996.

10. Moore, 1996.

11. Berman, 1986; Griffin, 1988; Gablik, 1991. There are others who write about reenchantment of the world and of science. Among them Ken Wilber, 1998; Isabelle Stengers and Illia Prigogine, in Stengers, 1997.

12. Gablik, 1991: 164.

13. I write re-enchantment rather than reenchantment to indicate that currently, we are simply changing the direction of our enchantment. Many authors refer to the so-called modern epoch as time of disenchantment. In We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour (1995) argued that we have never been modern since we have never been truly disenchanted. Modernity is rather enchantment with disenchantment. It is enchantment with possibilities to separate nature from culture and to reduce the whole world out-there to manageable fragmented pieces.

14. Doll, 1993.

15. Heidegger, 1962.

16. Gablik, 1991: 164. The different awareness Gablik refers to is the holistic awareness of being deeply unified with the rest of the world.

17. Gablik, 1991: 165.

18. Whitehead cited in Griffin, 1993:166.

19. Johnna Haskell conceptualizes a freefall pedagogy as a space of open possibilities and radical transformations. In Haskell, 2000.

20. Minutes of teaching mechanistic science is my story of teaching physical chemistry in the community college. At that time, the mechanistic science was the only science I knew.

21. I taught this course for three successive years. Days of the Physical Science in Elementary Schools Course (a soap opera), that reappears throughout the entire manuscript, is the story of my attempts to apply my emerging visions into pedagogical practice.

22. I organized this club with the purpose of exploring possibilities for informal teaching and learning re-enchanted science. The science video club gave me a priceless opportunity to be connected with young people not as a teacher or researcher, but as one of them.

23. The term coined by Ahsen, 1965.

24. Austin Dobson, cited in Splitter, 1997: 10.

25. Prigogine, 1996: 185.

26. Rasberry, 1997: 10.

27. Sheldrake, 1990:75

28. In Heyneman, 1993.

29. Whitehead, cited in Heyneman, 1993: 23.

30. Stengers, 1997: 35.

31. From Prigogine's and Stenger's chapter The Reenchantment of the World, in Stengers, 1997.

32. Griffin, 1988: 5.

33. Wilber, 1988:177

34. Quinn, 1997.

35. Quinn, 1997: 269.

36. In Quinn, 1997.

37. Kanze Motokiyo Zeami cited in Heyneman, 1993: 147.

38. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. Cited in Hardy, 1987: 144.

39. L'Engle, 1978: 87.

40. Doll, 1989: 243.

41. Wolf, 1991: 35.

42. From the K-7 British Columbia Ministry of Education Programs (Integrated Resources Package), IRP

43. BC K-7 Science IRP: 2.

43. Ibid: 15.

44. Ibid: 68.

45. Fels, 1999: 106.

46. Mashadi, 1997: 1.

47. Quinn, 1997.

48. L'Engle, 1978.

49. Doll, 1993: 91.

50. Stengers, 1997: 7.

51. Bardbury, 1998.

52. Covenvey & Highfield, 1995: 32.

53. The Henri Bernard's experiment described in Capra, 1996: 86.

54. Prigogine, cited in Kirk, 1991: 24.

55. Prigiogine & Stengers, 1984.

56. In terms of thermodynamics, an isolated system does not exchange anything with an environment; a closed system exchanges energy, and an open system exchanges matter and energy.

57. Prigogine & Stengers, 1984.

58. Prigogine, 1996: 3.

59. Sardar & Abrams, 1999: 84.

60. Barrow, 1999: xxii.

61. Alfred North Whitehead, cited in Prigogine, 1996: 189.

62. These are expressions of Prigogine and Stangers from their book Order out of Chaos, 1984.

63. Stengers & Prigogine, The Reenchantment of the World, in Stengers, 1997: 15.

64. Fels, 1999: 32.

65. Doll, 1993: 163.

66. Pribram &King, 1996.

67. Cherkes-Julkowski, 1996; Doll, 1993; Davis & Sumara, 1997; Jannone, 1995; Rea,1997; Rea & Ambrose, 1999; Fels, 1999.

68. Coveney & Highfield, 1995: 167.

69. Rea & Ambrose, 1999: 1.

70. Ibid: 10.

71. Cited in Rea & Ambrose, 1999.

72. Stadler,Vetter, Haynes & Kruse, 1996.

73. Rea & Ambrose, 1999: 4.

74. Laroche, 1997.

75. Doll, 1993: 164.

76. Ibid: 164.

77. John Muir, cited in Dillard, 1999: 63.

78. From the teaching team's field lesson in the elementary school.

79. Kauffman, 1995.

80. Fels, 1999: 155.

81. Ibid: 160.

82. Cherkes-Julkowski, 1996.

83. Dillard, 1999: 199.

84. Laszlo, 1995: 4.

85. Laszlo, 1995: 5.

86. From the David Bohm's chapter Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World in Griffin, 1988.

87. Bohm, 1973. He uses the word order not as an indication of a rigid structure, but as a design of the world. For instance, the ancient order of the world was the earth in the center of the universe.

88. Laszlo: 1995.

89. Wade: 1996.

90. Carl Jung in Laszlo, 1995: 135.

91. Paul Valery, quoted in Heyneman, 1993.

92. Dillard, 1999:13

93. Wilber, 1997: 79

94. Herbert, 1993: 61.

95. L'Engle, 1978: 87.

96. Griffin et al, 1993: x.

97. Talbot, 1993: 50.

98. Rilke, cited in Spiller, 1997: 136.

99. Laszlo, 1995.

100. L'Engle, 1978: 58.

101. Watts, 1966: 117.

102. Swimme, 1988: 49.

103. Miller, 1996.

104. Whitehead, cited in Sheldrake, 1990: 80.

105. Sheldrake, 1990: 80.

106. Berry, 1986: 19.

107. Bohm cited in Talbot, 1991.

108. Wilber, 1997.

109. Doll, 1993: 147.

110. Leggo, 1997: 28.

111. This poem is written by one of the elementary students. In Leggo, 1997: 27.

112. Lawrence, cited in Nachmanovich, 1993

113. Wilber, 1985: 4. What is spirit? Ken Wilber synthesized cross-cultural and cross-temporal definitions of spirit as the One, the Truth, the Higher Self, Godhead, Higher Self, Universal Mind, State of states, Condition of conditions, Nature of natures, Superconsciousness, Transcendental summit of our being, Primordial emptiness, Chaos.

114. Pierce, 1977:7

115. Lloyd, 1999: 1.

116. Lloyd, 1999: 6.

117. Neutopia, 1994: 20.

118. Ahsen, 1965: 59.

About the Author
 

Lyubov Laroche has taught science and science education in Russia, the United States and Canada. She has produced science educational videos and published poetry in anthologies and magazines. Her dissertation was awarded the Canadian Dissertation of the Year Award in Curriculum Studies by the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies. Her abridged version is published in Enraptured Contexts, Educational Insights (2002).

Selected works:

Laroche, L. (1999). Not I, not I, but fresh winds blow a new direction of time: youth science video club "Gaia". Mind's Eye, 7, 10.

Laroche, L. (2000a). Teaching science through imagery. Kappa Delta Record, 36(2), 77-79.

Laroche, L. (2000b). Where worlds of children and science meet. Science Council of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Laroche, L. (2001). Back to the future. Holography as a postmodern metaphor for holistic science education. In Brent Hockings, Johnna Haskell & Warren Linds (Eds.), Unfolding Bodymind. Exploring Possibility Through Education. Brandon, Vermont: The Foundation for Educational Renewal, Inc. College. Journal of College Science Teaching, 26(5), 301-302.

 

Correspondence: Lyubov Laroche, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4. E-mail: lyubov@interchange.ubc.ca. Webpage: www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/expressivescience

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