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Dehghani, Morteza; Bang, Megan; Medin, Douglas; Marin, Ananda; Leddon, Erin; Waxman, Sandra – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
An examination of artifacts provides insights into the goals, practices, and orientations of the persons and cultures who created them. Here, we analyze storybook texts, artifacts that are a part of many children's lives. We examine the stories in books targeted for 4-8-year-old children, contrasting the texts generated by Native American…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Books, Epistemology, American Indian Literature
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Bang, Megan; Marin, Ananda – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
The field of science education has struggled to create robust, meaningful forms of education that effectively engage students from historically non-dominant communities and women. This paper argues that a primary issue underlying this on-going struggle pivots on constructions of nature-culture relations. We take up structuration theory (Giddens,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Activities, Western Civilization, Indigenous Knowledge