Description: This book reviews cultural factors influencing engagement and non-engagement in science education worldwide, sheds light on the reasons why increasing numbers of students fail to engage with science education, and assesses cultural diversity as a response.
Review Quotes:
"Science Education for Diversity is valuable reading for a wide audience of science educators, researchers, and policy-makers as it offers a clear-eyed, critical look at the inability of mainstream science education to recruit a diverse ST workforce while preparing all citizens to be scientifically literate, lifelong science learners. Contributions that present a range of theoretical approaches and practices, highlight tensions, and provide possible solutions across a range of implementation sites promise to provide useful insights." (Pauline W. U. Chinn, Studies in Science Education, Vol. 53 (1), 2017)
"The book focuses on cultural issues in science education. ... The book also presents strategies for how to teach and deal with diverse groups in science classes. ... The book is well written and easy to read (even for non-native speakers). ... it will be of interest to researchers working in the field of diversity in science education, as well as for others." (Silvija Markic, Educationin Chemistry, July, 2014)