ویرایش: 1 
نویسندگان: Malcolm B. Butler Ph.D.,  Mary M. Atwater Ph.D. (auth.),  Mary M. Atwater,  Melody Russell,  Malcolm B. Butler (eds.)  
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ISBN (شابک) : 9789400776500, 9789400776517 
ناشر: Springer Netherlands 
سال نشر: 2014 
تعداد صفحات: 305 
زبان: English 
فرمت فایل : PDF (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود) 
حجم فایل: 2 مگابایت 

قیمت کتاب (تومان) : 41,000

This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip science teachers of underrepresented student populations with effective strategies that challenge the status quo, and foster classrooms environment that promotes equity and social justice for all of their science students.

Multicultural Science Education illuminates historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in science teacher education from the perspectives of a remarkable group of science teacher educators and presents research that has been done to address these issues. It centers on research findings on underserved and underrepresented groups of students and presents frameworks, perspectives, and paradigms that have implications for transforming science teacher education. In addition, the chapters provide an analysis of the socio-cultural-political consequences in the ways in which science teacher education is theoretically conceptualized and operationalized in the United States.

The book provides teacher educators with a framework for teaching through a lens of equity and social justice, one that may very well help teachers enhance the participation of students from traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas and help them realize their full potential in science. Moreover, science educators will find this book useful for professional development workshops and seminars for both novice and veteran science teachers.

"Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice directly addresses the essential role that science teacher education plays for the future of an informed and STEM knowledgeable citizenry. The editors and authors review the beginnings of multicultural science education, and then highlight findings from studies on issues of equity, underrepresentation, cultural relevancy, English language learning, and social justice. The most significant part of this book is the move to the policy level—providing specific recommendations for policy development, implementation, assessment and analysis, with calls to action for all science teacher educators, and very significantly, all middle and high school science teachers and prospective teachers.

By emphasizing the important role that multicultural science education has played in providing the knowledge base and understanding of exemplary science education, Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice gives the reader a scope and depth of the field, along with examples of strategies to use with middle and high school students. These classroom instructional strategies are based on sound science and research. Readers are shown the balance between research-based data driven models articulated with successful instructional design. Science teacher educators will find this volume of great value as they work with their pre-service and in-service teachers about how to address and infuse multicultural science education within their classrooms.

For educators to be truly effective in their classrooms, they must examine every component of the learning and teaching process. Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice provides not only the intellectual and research bases underlying multicultural studies in science education, but also the pragmatic side. All teachers and teacher educators can infuse these findings and recommendations into their classrooms in a dynamic way, and ultimately provide richer learning experiences for all students."

Patricia Simmons, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

"This provocative collection of chapters is a presentation in gutsiness. Ingenious in construction and sequencing, this book will influence science teacher educators by introducing them to issues of equity and social justice directly related to women and people of color. The authors unflinchingly interrogate issues of equity which need to be addressed in science education courses.

"This provocative collection of chapters is a presentation in gutsiness. Ingenious in construction and sequencing, this book will influence science teacher educators by introducing them to issues of equity and social justice directly related to women and people of color. The authors unflinchingly interrogate issues of equity which need to be addressed in science education courses.

It begins with setting current cultural and equity issue within a historic frame. The first chapter sets the scene by moving the reader through 400 years in which African-American’s were ‘scientifically excluded from science’. This is followed by a careful review of the Jim Crow era, an analysis of equity issues of women and ends with an examination of sociocultural consciousness and culturally responsive teaching.

Two chapters comprise the second section. Each chapter examines the role of the science teacher in providing a safe place by promoting equity and social justice in the classroom. The three chapters in the third section focus on secondary science teachers. Each addresses issues of preparation that provides new teachers with understanding of equity and provokes questions of good teaching.

Section four enhances and expands the first section as the authors suggest cultural barriers the impact STEM engagement by marginalized groups. The last section, composed of three chapters, interrogates policy issues that influence the science classroom."

Molly Weinburgh, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction: Culture, Equity, and Social Justice for Science Teacher Educators....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Systematic Misuse of Science....Pages 11-28
Second-Class Citizens, First-Class Scientists: Using Sociocultural Perspectives to Highlight the Successes and Challenges of African American Scientists During the Jim Crow Era....Pages 29-39
Science Education and Females of Color: The Play Within a Play....Pages 41-59
Sociocultural Consciousness and Science Teacher Education....Pages 61-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Impact of Beliefs and Actions on the Infusion of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Science Teacher Education....Pages 81-102
Motivation in the Science Classroom: Through a Lens of Equity and Social Justice....Pages 103-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Negotiating Science Content: A Structural Barrier in Science Academic Performance....Pages 119-136
Internationally Inclusive Science Education: Addressing the Needs of Migrants and International Students in the Era of Globalization....Pages 137-158
Using Problem-Based Learning to Contextualize the Science Experiences of Urban Teachers and Students....Pages 159-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
African American and Other Traditionally Underrepresented Students in School STEM: The Historical Legacy and Strategies for Moving from Stigmatization to Motivation....Pages 175-192
Preparing Science Teachers for Diversity: Integrating the Contributions of Scientists from Underrepresented Groups in the Middle School Science Curriculum....Pages 193-208
The Triangulation of the Science, English, and Spanish Languages and Cultures in the Classroom: Challenges for Science Teachers of English Language Learners....Pages 209-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
STEM-Based Professional Development and Policy: Key Factors Worth Considering....Pages 233-252
Policy Issues, Equity, Multicultural Science Education, and Local School District Support of In-Service Science Teachers....Pages 253-271
Policy Issues in Science Education: The Importance of Science Teacher Education, Equity, and Social Justice....Pages 273-283
Conclusion and Next Steps for Science Teacher Educators....Pages 285-291
Back Matter....Pages 293-295