Human Rights in Language and STEM Education: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

✍ Scribed by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite (eds.)

• Publisher: SensePublishers
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Use of Local Languages for Effective Science Literacy as a Human Right....Pages 3-15
Reading to Learn Science....Pages 17-34
Designing Standards-Driven Curriculum to Support....Pages 35-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Engineering Equity....Pages 55-70
Curriculum and Social Change in Education for a Sustainable Future?....Pages 71-90
Localizing Human Rights Education Through Technology....Pages 91-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
English as the Language of Science and Technology....Pages 111-127
Language, Scientific Knowledge, and the “Context of Learning” in African Education....Pages 129-150
Global Intersections of English Language Hegemony and Technological Innovation in the Republic of the Philippines....Pages 151-167
The Importance of Local Language to the Development of Technology....Pages 169-177
The Issue of English as a Medium of Instruction in Primary Schools in Pakistan....Pages 179-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Change in Space, Urban Culture and Ethnomathematics....Pages 207-219
Challenges of Mathematics Education in a Multilingual Post-Colonial Context....Pages 221-240
Why do Inconsistencies Persist in Children´s Rights to “Good” Education, Heritage Education and STEM Education?....Pages 241-254
Human Rights in Development AID for STEM Education in Nigerian Languages....Pages 255-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-282

✦ Subjects

Education, general