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van Eijck, Michiel; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
Science educators are confronted with the challenge to accommodate in their classes an increasing cultural and linguistic diversity that results from globalization. Challenged by the call to work towards valuing and keeping this diversity in the face of the canonical nature of school science discourse, we propose a new way of thinking about and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Cultural Context, Context Effect, Cultural Pluralism
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Catley, Kefyn M.; Novick, Laura R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
Some ability to comprehend deep time is a prerequisite for understanding macroevolution. This study examines students' knowledge of deep time in the context of seven major historical and evolutionary events (e.g., the age of the Earth, the emergence of life, the appearance of a pre-modern human, "Homo habilis"). The subjects were 126…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Paleontology, Biology, Evolution