Complementary Medicine in the Classroom: Is it Science?
This academic essay provides a strategy for teaching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the classroom, a subject typically critiqued as unconventional and non-scientific. It demonstrates how students can enhance their critically reflective skills by examining polarizing and controversi...
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Arizona State University
2023-02-01
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This academic essay provides a strategy for teaching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the classroom, a subject typically critiqued as unconventional and non-scientific. It demonstrates how students can enhance their critically reflective skills by examining polarizing and controversial medical topics, which are often considered by conventional doctors and researchers to be on the fringes of credible Western medicine. Included are examples of hands-on CAM experiments that can easily be incorporated in the classroom. It demonstrates how, by using an inquiry-based constructivist pedagogy, examining controversial and sometimes pseudoscientific ideas deepens learning.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e94b2271ff4a4f448f4c4666441b46702023-02-13T19:25:10ZengArizona State UniversityCurrent Issues in Education1099-839X2023-02-0124110.14507/cie.vol24iss1.2093Complementary Medicine in the Classroom: Is it Science?Frank Trocco0Lesley University This academic essay provides a strategy for teaching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the classroom, a subject typically critiqued as unconventional and non-scientific. It demonstrates how students can enhance their critically reflective skills by examining polarizing and controversial medical topics, which are often considered by conventional doctors and researchers to be on the fringes of credible Western medicine. Included are examples of hands-on CAM experiments that can easily be incorporated in the classroom. It demonstrates how, by using an inquiry-based constructivist pedagogy, examining controversial and sometimes pseudoscientific ideas deepens learning. https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/2093CAMcomplementary medicineconstructivist educationcritical reflectioninquiry-basedpseudoscience |
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