This paper examines the use of students' lived experiences in an urban elementary science
classroom. Students bring different funds of knowledge that are accumulated through their …

Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in
structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic …

Research and theories pertaining to pedagogy in the South Asian region have taken a
cultural turn, leading to investigation and explanation of pedagogy that goes beyond visible …

As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality,
this book examines gender inequality in Pakistan's public sector and questions whether a …

This paper examines the perceptions of three Somali mothers on science, science topics
taught in urban US schools and the challenges that they encountered in dealing with …

Gesundheitskompetenz (Health Literacy) wird in der Gesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts
immer wichtiger. Durch ihre Nähe zur Scientific Literacy schafft sie einen starken Bezug zum …

Attitudes to science scales developed earlier in England have been used in and around a
Pakistan city with children in Primary/Elementary Grades 4–8. The limitations of a …

This chapter focuses on the complexities of multicultural science education in High poverty
urban schools. High poverty urban schools encounter layers of barriers that expand in all …

This study explores the thinking and decisions of Vera (pseudonym), a Hispanic elementary
teacher, while she enacted a reform‐based science curriculum in an urban school in the …

This study examined factors that contribute to Chinese and United States middle school
science teachers' perceptions of autonomy support. Autonomy is one component of self …