Module 4 – Post 5 – Towards Cross-cultural Science and Technology Curriculum

http://www.d.umn.edu/~bmunson/Courses/Educ5560/readings/Aikenhead97-NOS.pdf

Recognizing that Science is a subculture of Western culture, Aikenhead explores the need for First Nations students to cross cultural border in order to participate in scientific learning.  As he puts it in his abstract, the pathway is

  1. Founded on empirical studies in educational anthropology
  2. Directed by the goals of First Nations people themselves.
  3. Illuminated by a reconceptualization of science teaching as cultural transmission
  4. Guided by a cross-cultural STS science and technology curriculum
  5. Grounded in various types of content knowledge 

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