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ERIC Number: EJ478408
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Multicultural Science Education: Perspectives, Definitions, and Research Agenda.
Atwater, Mary M.; Riley, Joseph P.
Science Education, v77 n6 p661-68 Nov 1993
Describes a vignette of an American white teaching successfully in the Philippines and an American white teaching unsuccessfully in a Washington, DC, school. Although the lesson is the same, successful teaching comes from cultural preparation while in the second situation, the teacher did not recognize he was teaching in a different culture. Defines and discusses multicultural education in research. (PR)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teacher Education
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Science Education Research