Human Rights in Language and STEM Education : : Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics / / edited by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite.
This volume explores the challenges of teaching and learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in local languages and local contexts in a range of countries around the world. Many countries around the world, including African countries, have been largely excluded from...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Paulo Freire Pedagogic Liberation through the STEM
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Human Rights in Language and Science Literacy
- The Use of Local Languages for Effective Science Literacy as a Human Right
- Reading to Learn Science: A Right That Extends to Every Reader—Expert or Novice
- Designing Standards-Driven Curriculum to Support: Access to Science for All Students
- Part II: Equity and Critical Pedagogy in Technology and Human Rights Education
- Engineering Equity: A Critical Pedagogical Approach to Language and Curriculum Change for African American Males in STEM
- Curriculum and Social Change in Education for a Sustainable Future? Ecophilosophy, Critical Inquiry and Moral Dilemmas
- Localizing Human Rights Education through Technology: Two Literacy Based Examples
- Part III: Language of Instruction in Science and Technology
- English as the Language of Science and Technology
- Language, Scientific Knowledge, and the “Context of Learning” in African Education; Global Intersections of English Language Hegemony and Technological Innovation in the Republic of the Philippines
- The Importance of Local Language to the Development of Technology
- The Issue of English as a Medium of Instruction in Primary Schools in Pakistan: Learning English, Mathematics or Science?
- Part IV: Human Rights in Mathematics and STEM Education; Change in Space, Urban Culture and Ethnomathematics; Challenges of Mathematics Education in a Multilingual Post-Colonial Context: The Case of Suriname; Why Do Inconsistencies Persist in Children’s Rights to “Good” Education, Heritage Education and STEM Education?
- Human Rights in Development Aid for STEM Education in Nigerian Languages
- Afterword: Ethnomathematics and the Geometry of Art
- About the Authors.