TY - BOOK AU - Medin,Douglas L. AU - Bang,Megan TI - Who's asking?: Native science, Western science, and science education SN - 9780262319430 AV - E59 .W467 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Indians KW - Science KW - Indian philosophy KW - North America KW - Philosophy KW - Ethnoscience KW - Study and teaching KW - Education KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Multi-User KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology KW - EDUCATION/General KW - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction: Who's asking? --; Unsettling science --; Maps, models and the unity of science --; Values everywhere within science --; Science reflects who does it --; Culture and issues in cultural research --; Psychological distance and conceptions of nature --; Distance, perspective taking, and ecological relations --; Complicating cultural models : limitations of distance --; The argument so far --; A brief history of Indian education --; Culturally-based science education : navigating multiple epistemologies --; Community-based science education : Menominee focus --; Community-based science education : AIC focus --; Partnership in community : some consequences --; Summary, conclusions, implications; 2; b N2 - "The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scientists do not shed their cultures at the laboratory or classroom door; their practices reflect their values, belief systems, and worldviews. Medin and Bang argue further that scientist diversity -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=683176&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -