Science educators are confronted with the challenge to accommodate in their classes an increasing cultural and linguistic diversity that results from globalization. Challenged by the call to work towards valuing and keeping this diversity in the face of the canonical nature of school science discourse, we propose a new way of thinking about and…

Focuses on theoretical underpinnings of social constructivism and multicultural education and aspects of social constructivism that can provide frameworks for research in multicultural science education. Attempts to persuade other researchers to expand their research and teaching efforts into multicultural science education. Illustrates a blending…

One dominant approach to reforming science education implements collaborative approaches to learning. Feminist pedagogy is concerned with transforming both how students learn science and the science curriculum that students are expected to learn. Collaborative approaches serve to reproduce the dominant discourse of existing science systems.…

Demonstrates, for a nonscience feminist educator, ways in which science and science education can be arenas for liberatory pedagogical practices where socioeconomic power relations can be challenged. The evolution and practice of scientific knowledge itself operates to exploit and oppress people everywhere in the name of a dominant class. (PVD)