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The image of science: leafing through a textbook

This text analyzes Science textbooks focusing on the images they present. Using other systems of interpretation as a counterpoint, it begins by stressing the evidence of the hegemonic traditions in school curricula they contain. Based on post-colonial authors, it tries to show how these images embody strategies of cultural omission and marginalization. Finally, it explores the modes of addressing inscribed in such books and the models of Science and pedagogical practice they convey.

Curriculum; Post-colonial studies; Natural sciences


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