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Evidence-Based Inquiries in Ethno-STEM Research - Investigations in Knowledge Systems Across Disciplines and Transcultural Settings (Hardcover)
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Evidence-Based Inquiries in Ethno-STEM Research - Investigations in Knowledge Systems Across Disciplines and Transcultural Settings (Hardcover)
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The purpose of the edited volume is to provide an international
lens to examine evidence-based investigations in Ethno-STEM
research: Ethno-science, Ethno-technology, Ethno-engineering, and
Ethno-mathematics. These themes grew out of multi-national,
multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary efforts to preserve as
well as epitomize the role that Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
play in cognitive development and its vital contributions to
successful and meaningful learning in conventional and
non-conventional contexts. Principled by the Embodied, Situated,
and Distributed Cognition (ESDC), this innovative book will provide
evidence supporting the embeddedness of a thinking-in-acting model
as a fundamental framework that explains and supports students'
acquisition of scientific knowledge. So often 'western' science
curricula are experienced as irrelevant, since it does not take
cognizance of the daily experiences and world in which the learner
finds himself. This book takes a socio-cultural look at IKS and
applies research in neuroscience to make a case its incorporation
in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
classroom. We use the Embodied Situated Distributed Cognition
(ESDC) Model as conceptual framework in this book. Although the
value of IKS is often acknowledged in curriculum policy documents,
teachers are most often not trained in incorporating IK in the
classroom. Teachers' lack of the necessary pedagogical content
knowledge (PCK) in effectively incorporating IK in their classrooms
is a tremendous problem internationally. Another problem is that IK
is often perceived as "pseudo-science", and scholars advocating for
the incorporation of IK in the school curriculum often do not
contextualize their arguments within a convincing theoretical and
conceptual framework.
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