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Science learning and teaching in a Creole-speaking environment

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The focus of this response to Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson’s article, ‘“Its worth our time”: A model of culturally and linguistically responsive professional development for K-12 STEM educators’, is… Click to show full abstract

The focus of this response to Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson’s article, ‘“Its worth our time”: A model of culturally and linguistically responsive professional development for K-12 STEM educators’, is to underpin a pedagogy that encourages and provides opportunities for the use of non-standard language in the description and practice of science. I discuss this within the context of Jamaica and provide an alternative way of science teaching, one which promotes Jamaican Creole as a mode of instruction for classroom talk and printed material.

Keywords: learning teaching; science; science learning; speaking environment; creole speaking; teaching creole

Journal Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education
Year Published: 2017

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