Postmodernism and elementary science. Elementary School Journal .
Postmodernism challenges the elevated status of scientists and scientific knowledge.
But, we argue, there is no realistic alternative to science as a way of satisfying children's curiosity about natural phenomena. Science need not be presented as a grand march toward Truth. To be at home in a knowledge-based society, people need to be able to move freely between scientific and other modes of thought, according to the situation and their purposes. The sixth-graders' discourse provides a striking illustration of what this can mean.