A Critical Examination of STEM: Issues and Challenges (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education) - Hardcover

Bowers, Chet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113865907X ISBN 13: 9781138659070

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Chet Bowers illuminates how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve. Examples demonstrate how the various science disciplines and their shared ideology largely fail to address the ways metaphorically layered language influences taken-for-granted patterns of thinking and the role this plays in colonizing other cultures, thus maintaining the myth that scientific inquiry is objective and free of cultural influences. Guidelines and questions are included to engage STEM students in becoming explicitly aware of these issues and the challenges they pose.

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About the Author

Chet Bowers has taught at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, and was granted emeritus status in 1998. He has also written 20 books on the cultural and linguistic roots of the ecological crisis and four books on the cultural transforming nature of the digital revolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113865907X
• ISBN 13: 9781138659070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140