Chapter 12: HABITS OF MIND [12-13] & [12-14]
■SFAA[12-13]
■SFAA[12-14]
たしかに，それぞれの学校が独力でこの状況を好転させるのは無理かもしれない．しかし，好転させようと現実的に考えるとき，学校の存在は必要不可欠である．児童・生徒たちに科学を肯定的にとらえる態度を育む力は，教師たちの手の内にある．もし教師たちが意義深く理解しやすい知的興奮をもたらす科学・数学の話題をとりあげたなら，もし彼らが用語の丸暗記ではなく探求と理解に焦点をおくなら，そして，もし彼らが担当するすべての児童・生徒に「期待されているのは探求し学ぶことである」と周知させ，彼らの成果を承認するなら，ほぼすべての児童・生徒たちが学ぶようになるのはまちがいない．そして，うまく学ぶことができたとき，そうする過程で児童・生徒たちはなによりも大切なことを学ぶあろう──すなわち，じぶんにも学ぶことができるのだ，ということを．
対応する原文は以下のとおり：
[12-13]
Attitudes Toward Learning Science, Mathematics, and Technology
Students in elementary school have a spontaneous interest in nature and numbers. Nevertheless, many students emerge from school fearing mathematics and disdaining science as too dull and too hard to learn. They see science only as an academic activity, not as a way of understanding the world in which they live. The consequences of this aversion are severe, for it means that the lives of too many students are being limited and the nation's overall pool of talent from which scientists, mathematicians, and engineers are drawn is smaller than it should be.
[12-14]
The schools may not be able to turn this situation around by themselves, but they are essential to any realistic hope of doing so. It is within teachers' power to foster positive attitudes among their students. If they choose significant, accessible, and exciting topics in science and mathematics, if they feature teamwork as well as competition among students, if they focus on exploring and understanding more than the rote memorization of terms, and if they make sure all their students know they are expected to explore and learn and have their achievements acknowledged, then nearly all of those students will indeed learn. And in learning successfully, students will learn the most important lesson of all—namely, that they are able to do so.
