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A Critical Examination of STEM: Issues and Challenges

A Critical Examination of STEM: Issues and Challenges

Bowers, Chet

Paperback

Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Educatio

General Education

ISBN10: 1138659088
ISBN13: 9781138659087
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 12 2016
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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