Toward a First Nations Cross-Cultural Science and Technology Curriculum CULTURE AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES
Scientific and Aboriginal ideas about nature are contrasted. Learning science is viewed as culture acquisition that requires First Nations students to cross a cultural border from their everyday world into the subculture of science. The pathway toward the cross-cultural education explored in the art...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.116.8025 2023-05-15T16:14:59+02:00 Toward a First Nations Cross-Cultural Science and Technology Curriculum CULTURE AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES William W. Cobern Glen S. Aikenhead The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.116.8025 http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~bmunson/Courses/Educ5560/readings/Aikenhead97-NOS.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.116.8025 http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~bmunson/Courses/Educ5560/readings/Aikenhead97-NOS.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~bmunson/Courses/Educ5560/readings/Aikenhead97-NOS.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T13:55:10Z Scientific and Aboriginal ideas about nature are contrasted. Learning science is viewed as culture acquisition that requires First Nations students to cross a cultural border from their everyday world into the subculture of science. The pathway toward the cross-cultural education explored in the article 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; and (5) grounded in various types of content knowledge (common sense, technology, and science) for the purpose of practical action such as economic development, environmental responsibility, and cultural survival. Cross-cultural instruction requires teachers to identify cultural border crossings for students and to facilitate those border crossings by playing the role of tour guide, travel agent, or culture broker, while sustaining the validity of students ’ own Text First Nations Unknown |
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Scientific and Aboriginal ideas about nature are contrasted. Learning science is viewed as culture acquisition that requires First Nations students to cross a cultural border from their everyday world into the subculture of science. The pathway toward the cross-cultural education explored in the article 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; and (5) grounded in various types of content knowledge (common sense, technology, and science) for the purpose of practical action such as economic development, environmental responsibility, and cultural survival. Cross-cultural instruction requires teachers to identify cultural border crossings for students and to facilitate those border crossings by playing the role of tour guide, travel agent, or culture broker, while sustaining the validity of students ’ own |
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