A cogenerative inquiry using postcolonial theory to envisage culturally inclusive science education |
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| Authors: | Jennifer Adams Bal Chandra Luitel Emilia Afonso Peter Charles Taylor |
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| Institution: | (1) Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USA;(2) Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia;(3) Pedagogical University, Maputo, Mozambique |
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| Abstract: | This forum constitutes a cogenerative inquiry using postcolonial theory drawn from the review paper by Zembylas and Avraamidou.
Three teacher educators from African, Asian and Caribbean countries reflect on problems confronting their professional practices
and consider the prospects of creating culturally inclusive science education. We learn that in Mozambique, Nepal and the
Caribbean scientism patrols the borders of science education serving to exclude local epistemological beliefs and discourses
and negating culturally contextualized teaching and learning. Despite the diverse cultural hybridities of these countries,
science education is disconnected from the daily lives of the majority of their populations, serving inequitably the academic
Western-oriented aspirations of an elite group who are “living hybridity but talking scientism.” The discussants explore their
autobiographies to reveal core cultural values and beliefs grounded in their non-Western traditions and worldviews but which
are in conflict with the Western Modern Worldview (WMW) and thus have no legitimate role in the standard school/college science
classroom. They reflect on their hybrid cultural identities and reveal the interplay of multiple selves grounded in both the
WMW and non-WMWs and existing in a dialectical tension of managed contradiction in a Third Space. They argue for dialectical
logic to illuminate a Third Space wherein students of science education may be empowered to challenge hegemonies of cultural
reproduction and examine reflexively their own identities, coming to recognize and reconcile their core cultural beliefs with
those of Western modern science, thereby dissipating otherwise strongly delineated cultural borders.
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| Keywords: | Postcolonialism Cogenerative inquiry Autobiography Dialectics |
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