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

Book 56 of 67: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

Bowers, Chet

 
9781138659087: A Critical Examination of STEM: Issues and Challenges (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138659088 ISBN 13: 9781138659087
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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138659088
ISBN 13 
9781138659087
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
140