Going beyond cultural pluralism: Science education for sociopolitical action
✍ Scribed by Derek Hodson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0097-0352
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✦ Synopsis
Some guiding principles of antiracist education are combined with Vygotskian notions of education as enculturation in order to produce a set of proposals for a radical form of multicultural science education for sociopolitical action. Major educational goals include: raising participation and attainment levels in science for students from ethnic minority groups; and sensitizing all students to racism, and other forms of discrimination and oppression, in science and technology, science education, and contemporary society. This article outlines a radical form of curriculum development, involving the politicization of teachers, as the only effective way of implementing such a curriculum. ᭧ 1999