This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate
preservice and inservice teachers¿ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented
and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will
better equip science teachers of underrepresented student populations with effective strategies
that challenge the status quo and foster classrooms environment that promotes equity and
social justice for all of their science students. Multicultural Science Education illuminates
historically persistent yet unresolved issues in science teacher education from the
perspectives of a remarkable group of science teacher educators and presents research that has
been done to address these issues. It centers on research findings on underserved and
underrepresented groups of students and presents frameworks perspectives and paradigms that
have implications for transforming science teacher education. In addition the chapters provide
an analysis of the socio-cultural-political consequences in the ways in which science teacher
education is theoretically conceptualized and operationalized in the United States. The book
provides teacher educators with a framework for teaching through a lens of equity and social
justice one that may very well help teachers enhance the participation of students from
traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups in science technology engineering and
mathematics (STEM) areas and help them realize their full potential in science. Moreover
science educators will find this book useful for professional development workshops and
seminars for both novice and veteran science teachers. Multicultural Science Education:
Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice directly addresses the essential role that
science teacher education plays for the futu
