SCIENCE EDUCATION ENTERPRIZE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AS A BATTLEFIELD OF DIFFERENT DREAMERS: HOW TO OVERCOME GROUPTHINK SYMPTOMS?

When discussing science education projects in developing countries, we have rarely made notice of stakeholders ’ ‘political ’ stances toward science education. In most cases, few of the stake-holders committing to science education activities in developing countries are aware that whether or not they really share the same ideas on the goal, aims, and ideal of science education enterprise. This may be a problem. For these several decades, science educators have achieved much progress in their understanding of the nature of science, nature of school science, and rela-tionship between science education and development, especially from the viewpoints of post-modern theories. Through the progress, there have appeared several critical views on science education among science educators. Though critical views on science education are still not so much prevailing in the science education practices in developed as well as developing countries, such views cannot be ignored when considering science education enterprise. Thus, in a certain specific situation of science education activity, we should be much more aware that each of stakeholders can take different stances toward science education from one another. However, in reality, stakeholders in a specific science project, does not seem to discuss on such difference. Why? The paper presents a possible reason from research on decision-making and argues for helping prospective indigenous stakeholders challenge the decision making processes of present science education projects in order to make their own dreams come true