Posted by: Dean Fink Posted on: May 18, 2001 at 6:12 PM Message: I think Howard you have asked the key question for this conference -'how do we reform science teaching andlearning in isolation from school reform in general'? I agree you cannot. Every other subject as well as systemic school reformers are madly working to achieve their visions. We are awash with visions. Just as science is searching for a unifying theory we need to learn from science and look at schools and systems in an ecological way. How to make those connections of course is the big question. You do seem to have anticipated many of the impediments to sustaining change but still find the problems significant. Is it realistic to talk about connectedness when our entire intellectual paradigm is built on a reductionist approach?