A Critical Examination of STEM: Issues and Challenges by Chet Bowers

By Chet Bowers

This serious exam of STEM discourses highlights the important to consider academic reforms in the diversified cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically pushed alterations. Chet Bowers illuminates how the dominant myths of Western technological know-how advertise fake delivers of what technological know-how can in attaining. Examples reveal how some of the technological know-how disciplines and their shared ideology principally fail to deal with the methods metaphorically layered language impacts taken-for-granted styles of pondering and the position this performs in colonizing different cultures, therefore preserving the parable that medical inquiry is aim and freed from cultural impacts. directions and questions are integrated to interact STEM scholars in changing into explicitly conscious of those concerns and the demanding situations they pose.

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