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

By: Series: Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education seriesPublisher: New York, NY, USA : Routledge, ©2016Description: xv, 124 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138659070 (hardback)
  • 9781138659087 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 507.1 B67 2016 23
LOC classification:
  • Q183.3.A1 B69 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.
Holdings
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Books Books College Library General Circulation Section GC GC 507.1 B67 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available HNU000373

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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