Permeability of students' worldviews to their school views in a non-Western developing country
✍ Scribed by Bruce G. Waldrip; Peter Charles Taylor
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 41 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4308
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✦ Synopsis
This ethnographic-interpretive study builds on recent cross-cultural research by examining the permeability of non-Western students' worldviews to the official Western school view. The study involved interview and case study techniques with 3 village elders and 15 high school students in a developing South Pacific country, and focused on the relevance of school science to students' future lives. The results suggest strongly that in developing countries (a) the process of enculturation into a Western school view involves an implicit devaluation of students' traditional worldviews which govern their village lifestyles; and (b) a Western school view is of limited viability in relation to traditional values and practices. The results of the study are of significance for non-Western developing countries which import Western-style science curricula.