Editors:
- Acknowledges both global and local contexts with an emphasis on multilingual and multicultural learning as a human right
- Promotes STEM in context through comparative and international education
- Exemplifies how local values and knowledge can enable relevant and lasting educational change
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Pedagogical Tools Integrating Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM Subjects
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Technology in Design Curriculum, Engineering in STEAM Pedagogy and the Arts
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Pedagogical Tools in Mathematics, Ethno-Mathematics and Medicine
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About this book
The book reflects the core of human rights education, using local languages and local knowledge through art as a tool for teaching human rights at school, and bringing to light questions on diversity, ecology, climate change, environmental issues, health and the future of human beings, as well as power relations between non-dominant (minorities) and dominant (the majority) groups in society.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite
About the editor
Dr. Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite is a Researcher at the Graduate School of Education and President of the Humanities and Social Science Association at the University of California-Berkeley, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco and at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA. She is also a lecturer at San Jose State University. Dr. Babaci-Wilhite is affiliated with the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, and supervises students at the Department of Educational Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, where she obtained her Master’s and PhD in Comparative and International Education. She has taught courses and workshops in the USA, Norway, Japan, India, France, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria on issues related to language and culture, development and human rights. Her current research interests include Language and Science Literacy as a Human Right in Education, Development Aid, African Higher Education and Technology. Through her recent research projects, she has developed an interest in the pedagogy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), putting the “A” in STEM and transforming it into STEAM. She is the author of many published articles in prominent academic journals, of several book chapters, and of two books: one on Local Languages as a Human Right in Education and the other on Language, Development Aid and Human Rights: Curriculum Policies in Africa and Asia. Dr. Babaci-Wilhite has also edited two volumes: Giving Space to African Voices and Human Rights in Language and STEM Education. She is fluent in French, English, Norwegian, Japanese and Berber, with knowledge of Arabic, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Swahili and Igbo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education
Book Subtitle: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics
Editors: Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2880-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2879-4Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2880-0Published: 13 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Learning & Instruction, Educational Policy and Politics, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Educational Technology