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ERIC Number: EJ580432
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Teachers, Teaching Strategies and Culture.
Aikenhead, Glen
Science Education International, v9 n3 p7-10 Sep 1998
Argues that most students' cultural identities are at odds with the culture of Western science, and that science teachers should be viewed as "culture brokers" or "tour guides" who make this Western science culture available to students. (WRM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Enterprise, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cultural Apprentice; Culture Transmission; Relativism