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A critical examination of STEM : issues and challenges / by Chet Bowers.

By: Bowers, Chet A [author.].
Series: Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education series.Publisher: New York, NY, USA : Routledge, ©2016Description: xv, 124 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138659070 (hardback); 9781138659087 (pbk.).Subject(s): Science -- Study and teaching -- United States | Technology -- Study and teaching -- United States | Engineering -- Study and teaching -- United States | Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States | Educational change -- Social aspects -- United States | Educational change -- United StatesDDC classification: 507.1 B67 2016
Contents:
The Cultural Baggage Most Scientists Take For Granted -- Avoiding the Separation of Science and Culture -- An Overview of What Scientists Need to Know About the Cultures They are Transforming -- The Cultural Mediating Nature of Technique and Technologies : Another Area of Silence in the Education of Western Scientists -- Educating the Next and Perhaps Last Generation of Scientists and Technologists -- How an Uncritical Reliance upon Print and Data Misrepresents the Emergent, Relational, and Interdependent World of All Ecologies -- Helping STEM Students Recognize the Political Categories that Support an Ecologically Sustainable Future -- How STEM Teachers can Address the Fear and Ecological Uncertainties by Introducing Students to the Differences Between Wisdom and Data -- Helping to Protect Students from the Excesses of Scientism in Today's World -- Rethinking Social Justice Issues Within an Eco-Justice Conceptual and Moral Framework.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Cultural Baggage Most Scientists Take For Granted -- Avoiding the Separation of Science and Culture -- An Overview of What Scientists Need to Know About the Cultures They are Transforming -- The Cultural Mediating Nature of Technique and Technologies : Another Area of Silence in the Education of Western Scientists -- Educating the Next and Perhaps Last Generation of Scientists and Technologists -- How an Uncritical Reliance upon Print and Data Misrepresents the Emergent, Relational, and Interdependent World of All Ecologies -- Helping STEM Students Recognize the Political Categories that Support an Ecologically Sustainable Future -- How STEM Teachers can Address the Fear and Ecological Uncertainties by Introducing Students to the Differences Between Wisdom and Data -- Helping to Protect Students from the Excesses of Scientism in Today's World -- Rethinking Social Justice Issues Within an Eco-Justice Conceptual and Moral Framework.

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