Student Belief in Cultural Context: A Logico-Structural, World View Investigation of Belief and Culture Among Secondary Science Students....

到目前为止，科学教育者还没有研究学生对世界的看法，这些信念植根于学生的社会文化环境中并得到了培养。如果谈到一个非西方的发展中国家，人们会说学生的传统文化与科学文化形成对比。另一方面，美国人认为科学是美国学生文化的自然组成部分。然而，人们对科学普遍不感兴趣。此外，美国社会越来越多元化，有几个文化亚群传统上在科学界的代表性不足。对于美国科学教育者来说，一种新的方法是考虑这样一种可能性，即对许多学生来说，科学是第二次文化体验。传统上，对文化的研究留给了文化人类学家。然而，近年来，几个学科的学者进行了文化研究，他们调查了各自领域中文化假设的有效性。同样，科学教育中的文化研究可以大大有助于我们理解有效的科学教育的障碍。我们认为，对于科学教育工作者来说，重要的是理解学生带到课堂上的关于世界的基本的、基于文化的信念，以及这些信念是如何得到学生文化的支持的；因为，科学教育只有在科学能够在学生的认知和社会文化环境中找到一席之地的情况下才能取得成功。因此，本研究的目的是了解高中生对世界的基本信念，以及他们的个人、文化环境如何培养和支持这些信念。研究方法是人种学方法，涉及对学生的广泛访谈。

To date, science educators have not studied what students believe about the world, beliefs rooted and nurtured in students' socio- cultural environments. If one were speaking of a non-Western, developing nation, one would speak of students' traditional culture in contrast to the culture of science. Americans, on the other hand, assume that science is a natural part of American students' culture. However, there is widespread disinterest in science. Also, American society is increasingly pluralistc, and there are several cultural subgroups traditionally under represented in science. A new approach is for American science educators to consider the possibility that science is a second culture experience for many students. Traditionally, the study of culture is left to the cultural anthropologists. However, in recent years scholars in several disciplines have undertaken cultural studies in which they investigate the validity of cultural assumptions in their fields. Similarly, cultural studies in science education can contribute significantly to our understanding of the barriers to effective science education. We suggest that it is important for science educators to understand the fundamental, culturally based beliefs about the world that students bring to class, and how these beliefs are supported by students' cultures; because, science education is successful only to the extent that science can find a niche in the cognitive and socio-cultural milieu of students. Thus, the purpose of the proposed research is to gain an understanding of high school students' fundamental beliefs about the world, and how their personal, cultural environments foster and support those beliefs. The methodology is ethnographic, involving the extensive interviewing of students.