مؤلف: Arthur J. Stewart

Arthur J. Stewart of Lenoir City, Tennessee, is a scientist, science educator, and poet.  He earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in aquatic ecology and worked at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 17 years as an ecologist and ecotoxicologist before becoming a science education project manager for Oak Ridge Associated Universities.  In addition to publishing over a hundred scientific articles, book chapters, and technical reports, his science-inspired poetry has been published many literary magazines and in more than a dozen anthologies. Michael P. Mueller is a professor of secondary education with expertise in environmental and science education in the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage.  His philosophy now focuses on how privileged cultural thinking frames our relationships with others, including nonhuman species and physical environments.  He works with teachers tounderstand the significance of cultural diversity, biodiversity, and nature’s harmony.  He is the coeditor-in-chief of Cultural Studies of Science Education. Deborah J. Tippins is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Georgia.  Her scholarly work focuses on encouraging meaningful discourses around environmental justice and sociocultural issues in science education.