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Human Rights in Language and STEM Education Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics /

This volume explores the challenges of teaching and learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in local languages and local contexts in a range of countries around the world. Many countries around the world, including African countries, have been largely excluded from...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Babaci-Wilhite, Zehlia. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Education.
Education, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-405-3
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Paulo Freire Pedagogic Liberation through the STEM
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Human Rights in Language and Science Literacy
  • The Use of Local Languages for Effective Science Literacy as a Human Right
  • Reading to Learn Science: A Right That Extends to Every Reader—Expert or Novice
  • Designing Standards-Driven Curriculum to Support: Access to Science for All Students
  • Part II: Equity and Critical Pedagogy in Technology and Human Rights Education
  • Engineering Equity: A Critical Pedagogical Approach to Language and Curriculum Change for African American Males in STEM
  • Curriculum and Social Change in Education for a Sustainable Future? Ecophilosophy, Critical Inquiry and Moral Dilemmas
  • Localizing Human Rights Education through Technology: Two Literacy Based Examples
  • Part III: Language of Instruction in Science and Technology
  • English as the Language of Science and Technology
  • Language, Scientific Knowledge, and the “Context of Learning” in African Education; Global Intersections of English Language Hegemony and Technological Innovation in the Republic of the Philippines
  • The Importance of Local Language to the Development of Technology
  • The Issue of English as a Medium of Instruction in Primary Schools in Pakistan: Learning English, Mathematics or Science?
  • Part IV: Human Rights in Mathematics and STEM Education; Change in Space, Urban Culture and Ethnomathematics; Challenges of Mathematics Education in a Multilingual Post-Colonial Context: The Case of Suriname; Why Do Inconsistencies Persist in Children’s Rights to “Good” Education, Heritage Education and STEM Education?
  • Human Rights in Development Aid for STEM Education in Nigerian Languages
  • Afterword: Ethnomathematics and the Geometry of Art
  • About the Authors.

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