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This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Guidelines and questions are included to engage STEM students in becoming explicitly aware of how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve and maintain the myth that scientific inquiry is objecti...

This collection of essays by third world activists highlights two major world changes overlooked by Paulo Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization and the ecological crisis.

This is the first Theory and Practice from Eco-Justice Press. We present to you a wide range of topics relating to eco-justice*, by authors from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We are pleased to give the authors a new venue to present their thoughts and we appreciate their contributions. Also, we thank Chet Bowers for writing the After-word. The idea for this book arose because it seemed a 'where are we now' perspective on how eco-j...

In The False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning: A Global and Ecological Critique, C. A. Bowers examines why constructivist-based educational reforms fail to take into account these current critical issues: the deepening ecological crisis, globalization, and undermining of the world's diverse cultural commons. Special attention is given to the ethnocentrism and Social Darwinism that created the foundations for the ideas of Dewey, ...

The consensus among the world's scientists that human behavior is contributing to the life-threatening degradation of natural systems continues to be ignored by the chief supporters of the common core curriculum. These supporters - corporations, politicians, and educators who promote the further expansion of the industrial/consumer and now digitally dependent lifestyle - have now encoded their misconceptions and silences in the Common Core Cur...

The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond.

This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Guidelines and questions are included to engage STEM students in becoming explicitly aware of how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve and maintain the myth that scientific inquiry is objecti...

The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond.

This landmark collection by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological cr