Toward a new rationale of science education in a non-western society

Science education in most non-western societies is modelled on that of the west. Considering that science is a culture which westerners produced, we cannot but infer that science must be a foreign culture for non-westerners and that science education in such a society must have some characteristics different from thoseof science education in a western society. In this essay, a model for a rationale of science education for a non-western society is proposed, in which science and traditional culture can be seen tobe in conflict.