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Answer the following questions in 25 words or less. Readings for the issues can be found on the specified pages.

1. On p.27 Ann Stanton says of Women's Ways of Knowing that: "Principally, it takes women seriously as thinkers and knowers. rather than impose theories about cognition, the authors begin with their women respondents, listening carefully to how they define powerful learning experiences and go about gathering knowledge and making meaning." This approach is recognized in sociology as grounded theory. In what way is this approach more likely to discover some of the basic ways of knowing than the traditional experimental approach?

2. Define grounded theory in 25 words or less. See p. 27.

3. Alfie Kohn says that grades hurt students by encouraging them to work for external rewards and by thus failing to allow them the luxury of developing intrinsic motivation (otherwise known as the sheer joy of learning). How does Kohn's statement fit with Stanton's description of students' struggle for coherence and meaning in their college work? See Dear Habermas link under Justice, Jurisprudence and Judgments, to Alfie Kohn on Gold Stars and A's Punish by Stilling Our Voices. Compare Kohn's distrust of grades to Stanton's comments on p.36 of Knowledge, Difference, and Power: "Who am I and how is college changing me? and what do I want to do with my life?" Perhaps we should also ask, as Harding reminds us on p. 445, what is college teaching me to want "not to know," to be ignorant of, for the questions we do not ask are like the other side of the coin to those we do ask. On this check the site on Epstein's Impure Science. Impure Science: The Story of AIDS Research

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