Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Medin, Douglas L.
Other Authors Bang, Megan, 1975-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
Subjects
Indians > Science.
Indian philosophy.
Science > Philosophy.
Ethnoscience.
Science > Study and teaching.
Indians > Education.
Science > Social aspects.
Science > Political aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262319430
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Who's asking?
  • Unsettling science
  • Maps, models and the unity of science
  • Values everywhere within science
  • Science reflects who does it
  • Culture and issues in cultural research
  • Psychological distance and conceptions of nature
  • Distance, perspective taking, and ecological relations
  • Complicating cultural models : limitations of distance
  • The argument so far
  • A brief history of Indian education
  • Culturally-based science education : navigating multiple epistemologies
  • Community-based science education : Menominee focus
  • Community-based science education : AIC focus
  • Partnership in community : some consequences
  • Summary, conclusions, implications.

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