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A Critical Reflection on the Nature of Science Construct: A Call for Worldview Integration
Abstract
This chapter is an account of the process and conclusions that emerged from the author's personal critical reflection of her enculturation into and understanding of the nature of science. The critical reflection focuses on how the present nature of science construct that informs science education standards is limited by a Western, mechanistic worldview that impedes educators' ability to achieve culturally sustaining pedagogy. One necessary step toward addressing this challenge is to include more organic and holistic worldviews in the nature of science, worldviews that are embraced by Indigenous science traditions as well as quantum thinking. The author proposes a framework to problematize the epistemological underpinnings of science in order to achieve science education spaces that are culturally sustaining.
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