A critical examination of STEM : issues and challenges /
by Chet Bowers.
- xv, 124 pages ; 23 cm.
- Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education series .
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.
College of Education
Text in English
9781138659070 (hardback) 9781138659087 (pbk.)
2015045279
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 States.