Writing Multicultural Science Textbooks: Perspectives, Problems, Possibilities, and Power.

Ninnes, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ646180

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Publication Date: 2001

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Writing Multicultural Science Textbooks: Perspectives, Problems, Possibilities, and Power.

Ninnes, Peter

Australian Science Teachers' Journal, v47 n4 p18-24,26-27 Nov 2001

Reports on a pilot survey of the authors of three sets of textbooks used in Australia and Canada, which have previously been shown to include a relatively high proportion of Indigenous and other minority groups' knowledges, cultures and sciences. Explores issues of voice and power in the production of textbooks. (MM)

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Multicultural Education, Multicultural Textbooks, Postmodernism, Science Education, Secondary Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Textbook Bias, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Preparation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Canada

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