Multicultural Science Education: Theory, Practice, & Promise

Contents: Norvella P. Carter/Patricia J. Larke/Gail Singleton-Taylor/Erich Santos: Multicultural Science Education: Moving Beyond Tradition -- Alberto J. Rodriguez: "Science for All" and Invisible Ethnicities: How the Discourse of Power and Good Intentions Undermine the National Science Education Standards -- Roberta Ahlquist/Julie Kailin: Teaching Science from a Critical Multicultural Perspective -- Mary M. Atwater/Denise Crockett: Prospective Teachers' Education World View and Teacher Education Programs: Through the Eyes of Culture, Ethnicity, and Class -- Shirley Gholston Key: Enhancing the Science Interest of African American Students Using Cultural Inclusion -- Paul McD. Rowland/Carol R. Adkins: Native American Science Education and Its Implications for Multicultural Science Education -- Charles E. Simmons: Multicultural Science Education Program Demonstrates Equity and Excellence -- Cathleen C. Loving/Bernard R. Oritz de Montellano: Good Versus Bad Culturally Relevant Science: Avoiding the Pitfalls -- Peter Ninnes: Rethinking Multicultural Science Education: Representations, Identities, and Texts -- Samina Hadi-Tabassum: Defining a Theoretical Framework for Multicultural Science.