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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education / Douglas L. Medin and Megan Bang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medin, Douglas L., author.
- Bang, Megan, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians--Science.
- Indians.
- Indian philosophy.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Ethnoscience.
- Science--Study and teaching.
- Indigenous peoples--Education.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indians--Education.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262026628
- 0262026627
- OCLC:
- 851175215
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