Multicultural science education
Subtitle: theory, practice, and promise
By: edited by S. Maxwell Hines.
Contributors: Hines, S. Maxwell, 1960-
Series: Counterpoints -- v. 120; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 120.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Science -- Study and teaching -- United States; Multicultural education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multicultural science education: moving beyond tradition / Norvella P. Carter ... [et al.]; title: "Science for all" and invisible ethnicities: how the discourse of power and good intentions undermine the national science education standards / Alberto J. Rodriguez; title: Teaching science from a critical multicultural perspective / Roberta Ahlquist and Julie Kailin; title: Prospective teachers' education world view and teacher education programs: through the eyes of culture, ethnicity, and class / Mary M. Atwater and Denise Crockett; title: Enhancing the science interest of African American students using cultural inclusion / Shirley Gholston Key; title: Native American science education and its implications for multicultural science education / Paul McD. Rowland and Carol R. Adkins; title: Multicultural science education program demonstrates equity and excellence / Charles E. Simmons; title: Good versus bad culturally relevant science: avoiding the pitfalls / Cathleen C. Loving and Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano; title: Rethinking multicultural science education: representation, identities, and texts / Peter Ninnes; title: Defining a theoretical framework for multicultural science / Samina Hadi-Tabassum.