COMPETING PARADIGMS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH.

The article discusses paradigms in science education research. The prevailing paradigm for science education and research is the agricultural-scientific paradigm in the U.S. and Australia. Originally, this paradigm is applied in agricultural and scientific research. Another is the anthropological paradigm which views education from an anthropological perspective and uses approaches based on ethnography rather than psychometry. The author emphasizes that science teachers and philosophers should assist in judging whether problems selected by research teams are nontrivial.