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Hsin-Chueh Chen; Mei-Chun Lin; Chun-Yen Chang – Science & Education, 2025
Multicultural science education advocates that science education should pay attention to the uniqueness of students from different backgrounds. In developing instructional strategies, educators should respect students' differences according to their culture. However, In Taiwan, while Darwin's theory of evolution is taught in high school biology,…
Descriptors: Christianity, World Views, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bloom, Mark A.; Binns, Ian C.; Meadows, Lee – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2021
In this manuscript, three science educators describe strategies used to effectively communicate about religiously and culturally sensitive science content and share lessons learned from their experiences. Mark A. Bloom (2019-2021 Fellow) describes the challenges he overcame in teaching climate change science at an evangelical university by…
Descriptors: Religion, Cultural Differences, Science Instruction, Christianity
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McChesney, Kay Young – SAGE Open, 2015
This article is targeted to faculty teaching race and ethnicity, racism, diversity, and multicultural courses. Many students equate race with skin color. The premise of this article is that to teach students about the social construction of race, teachers must first know enough science to teach students that race is not biological. This article…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Diversity, Racial Bias, Cultural Differences
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Scarr, Sandra – Child Development, 1993
Posits that an evolutionary perspective can unite the study of the typical development for and individual variation within a species and that environments within the normal range for a species are required for species-normal development. Individual differences in children reared in normal environments arise primarily from genetic variation and…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Definitions, Environment