Bowers, Chet A.,

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.

Q183.3.A1 / B69 2016

507.1 B67 2016