Critical Examination of STEM

Chet Bowers has taught at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, and was granted emeritus status in 1998. He has also written 20 books on the cultural and linguistic roots of the ecological crisis and four books on the cultural transforming nature of the digital revolution.

• Contents:PrefaceChapter 1 The Cultural Baggage Most Scientists Take For Granted Chapter 2 Avoiding the Separation of Science and Culture Chapter 3 An Overview of What Scientists Need to Know About the Cultures They are Transforming Chapter 4 The Cultural Mediating Nature of Technique and Technologies: Another Area of Silence in the Education of Western ScientistsChapter 5 Educating the Next and Perhaps Last Generation of Scientists and Technologists Chapter 6 How an Uncritical Reliance upon Print and Data Misrepresents the Emergent, Relational, and Interdependent World of All EcologiesChapter 7 Helping STEM Students Recognize the Political Categories that Support an Ecologically Sustainable FutureChapter 8 How STEM Teachers can Address the Fear and Ecological Uncertainties by Introducing Students to the Differences Between Wisdom and Data Chapter 9 Helping to Protect Students from the Excesses of Scientism in Today’s WorldChapter 10 Rethinking Social Justice Issues Within an Eco-Justice Conceptual and Moral FrameworkReferences