TY - BOOK AU - Bowers,Chet A. TI - A critical examination of STEM : : issues and challenges T2 - Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education series SN - 9781138659070 (hardback) AV - Q183.3.A1 B69 2016 U1 - 507.1 B67 2016 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, NY, USA PB - Routledge KW - Science KW - Study and teaching KW - United States KW - Technology KW - Engineering KW - Mathematics KW - Educational change KW - Social aspects N1 - 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; CoED; Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Sciences ER -