The Enchantment wanted to unify the sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, etc. to create common natural laws. ... According to Descartes, reductionism is "the study of the world as an assemblage of physical parts that can be broken apart and analyzed separately- (31). ... The different branches of learning such as the social sciences, chemistry and biology are all possible pathways we can choose to get from one room to the next (73). ...
In addressing concepts that are extremely foreign to students, which is common in my content area of chemistry and biology, the teachers" responsibility is to relate the concepts to prior knowledge of the student. Concepts must be presented in a variety of ways such as lecture, reading, and physical demonstrations, and repeated through applications that relate to the students such as labs, problems, and personal projects. ...