Design of intercultural teaching practices for science education based on evidence

Abstract

• Science teachers face multicultural classrooms where the epistemology of science and the traditional epistemologies from the communities to which students belong coexist. Our purpose is to support teachers in establishing an inclusive relationship between such epistemologies, by providing them with a set of Intercultural Teaching Practices for Science Education (ITPSE). For designing the ITPSE we borrow the epistemological bridge (EB) which describes the inclusion relationship as the equitable recognition, validation and use of the diverse epistemologies. We tested the ITPSE. The results show us that the EB version that the participant-teacher took into practice, through the ITPSE, is an alternative to what we propose. This evidence suggests re-designing the ITPSE to better guide teachers in planning and enacting the EB.