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This chapter provides a three-part introduction to the Science Education Policy section of the International Handbook for Multicultural Science Education. The first part clarifies what is meant by science education policy and argues for the relevance of including a multicultural perspective within science education policy, instead of making a separate subdiscipline. The second part provides a brief overview of the content of the three chapters in this section. The third part introduces the idea that two important policy issues from a multicultural perspective are: (a) supporting the development of adequate educational practices and (b) infrastructures that are appropriate for diverse pupils.
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“One central premise … is that the integration of discipline-specific and diversity-oriented approaches to teaching and learning is essential to achieve the goal of science for all students” (Lee and Buxton 2010, p. 4).
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Chaiklin, S. (2022). Science Education Policy Introduction. In: Atwater, M.M. (eds) International Handbook of Research on Multicultural Science Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83122-6_67
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