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Robert E. Yager is Professor of Science Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Correspondence concerning this article may be sent to Robert-Yager@uiowa.edu.

Hakan Akcay is a Post-Doctoral scholar at the University of Iowa. His research interests include establishing new contexts to stimulate learning, including contexts proposed by learners. He is attempting to encourage more focus on using social issues as an entre' to improved instruction and for curriculum organizers.