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Challenging the “Science from nowhere” perspective in the classroom
Studies in the field of science education have discussed using historical approaches. Although previous studies have shown the potential advantages...
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Investigating How Prospective Mathematics Teachers Prepare History Integrated Lesson Plans with Assessing Historical Elements in Mathematics Textbooks
It is difficult for mathematics teachers to find and utilize relevant historical content for their students. In this study, we aimed to examine how...
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Cultural Humility for Student Affairs Professionals
Preparing student affairs and international education professionals to support international students may seem daunting considering the cultural...
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Outdoors and Nature in Pedagogical Practices and in Cultural Historical Theory
Despite the increasing awareness of the outdoors as a beneficial site for young children’s education, the status of outdoor activities varies in and...
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The GTPA as a Collaborative Project in Australian Initial Teacher Education: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Perspective
This chapter draws on the preceding chapters in Part 2 of this volume to consider the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) task and its...
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Understanding Interactions in Multilingual Science Classrooms through Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): What Do Contradictions Tell Us?
Interactions in multilingual science classrooms involve local cognitive and sociocultural dimensions along with global contextual aspects such as...
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Constructing Cultural Identity Through Heritage Education: The Case of Central China
Heritage education has served as a significant part in most countries’ strategies that teaching youngsters to understand their own cultures from the...
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State Education and Historical Reappraisal: Changes to the Draft Version of the Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories Curriculum Content
English-medium state schools in New Zealand have been directed to begin implementing the new Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum content from...
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Rethinking Learning for a High Skills Economy: What a Cultural-Historical Approach Can Offer
In this chapter Edwards outlines a Vygotskian cultural-historical approach to learning, to argue that it offers a future-oriented approach to working...
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Explanations as cultural tools in science education
After reviewing the main discussions on scientific explanation in the literature, this paper outlines a particular approach to explanations based on...
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The Dialogic Approach of Ethnomodelling and Its Cultural Dynamics
Ethnomodelling is an alternative methodological approach suited to diverse sociocultural realities, and proposes the rediscovery of mathematical...
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Diversity of epistemologies in African higher education: an interdisciplinary perspective on the contribution of digital communities of practice to equitable knowledge production
This interdisciplinary article proposes a holistic approach to address challenges faced by African higher education owing to the shift to digital...
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A Freirean liberatory perspective of community colleges education: critical consciousness and social justice science issues in the biology curriculum
This paper discusses the value of a Freirean liberatory perspective in community colleges, countering the traditional “second chance” or “social...
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Citizenship Education: A Global Perspective
Using critical discourse analysis, this chapter examines major discourses surrounding active citizenship education in schools. It examines cultural...
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The Wisdom and Science Behind Indigenous Cultural Practices
Conquest and colonization have systematically disrupted the processes by which Indigenous communities of the Americas transmit cultural knowledge and...
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Wenhua dacai (great cultural talent): paradoxical discourses and practices in the revival of Confucian classical education in contemporary China
Cultivating wenhua dacai (great cultural talent) is a central goal of the ongoing du**g (classics reading) education movement, which is an integral...
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From access to inclusion: a call for a cultural shift in higher education
This study explores accessibility barriers in higher education (HE), by centering the voices of 50 disabled students. Drawing on the frameworks of...
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Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program
As part of an on-going effort to increase recruitment and retention of historically marginalized groups in science, technology, engineering, and...
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The Cultural Formation of Science Knowledge
As digital technologies have become more developed, new ways of researching have emerged and greater insights into the cultural nature of science...
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Teaching Academic Integrity as Good Historical Practice
This chapter examines why and how to teach academic integrity in history courses. It argues that issues of academic integrity are both important and...