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The Dominican American community: culture, socioeconomics, education
Cambeira, Alan. 1997 . Quisqueya la Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective. Sharpe , M.e. , Inc. (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean Series). 286p.
Diaz, Junot. 1997. Drown. Berkley Publishing Group. 224p.
Gray, D. M. 2001. High Literacy and Ethnic Identity. Dominican American Schooling in Transition. New York : Rowman and Littlefield.
Grasmuck, Sherri and Patricia R. Pessar. 1991. Between Two Islands : Dominican International Migration. University of California Press. 280p.
Hernandez, Ramona. 2002. The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism: Dominican migration to the United States . New York : Columbia University Press. (A nice introduction to the history of Dominican migration to New York City ).
Leavitt, P. 2001. Transnational Villagers . University of California Press. 281p.
Lopez, Nancy . 2003. Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys. Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. Taylor and Francis. (Important study of Dominican-American secondary school experiences in New York City .)
Pons, Frank Moya. 1998. Dominican Republic : A National History . Markus Wiener, 543p.
Torres-Saillant, S. and R. Hernandez. 1998. The Dominican Americans. Greenwood Press. (A good starting point.)
Link to the Dominican Studies Institute Library: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi/library.htm
Link to the Dominican Studies Institute: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi/about.htm
How to develop culturally relevant science curricula for Dominican American students
Nehm, R. H. 2003. Dominican-American transnationalism and its role in science curriculum development. (unpublished manuscript).
Websites related to the Dominican Republic
NMITA database: http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu/
The Dominican Republic Project at CCNY: http://www.dominicanrepublicproject.org
Link to the Dominican Studies Institute Library: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi/library.htm
Link to the Dominican Studies Institute: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi/about.htm
The New York City and National Science Education Standards
National Research Council, National Science Education Standards , 1999. National Academy Press, Washington , DC . http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/
New York State Board of Education, www.nysed.gov .
New York City Science Standards: http://www.nycenet.edu/teachers/
Teaching in urban schools
Barton, A. C. 2001. Science education in urban settings: Seeking new ways of praxis through critical ethnography. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Volume 38, Issue 8, Pp. 899-917
Barton, A. C. and K. Tobin. 2001. Urban science education. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Volume 38, Issue 8, pp. 843-846
Bouillion Lisa M., Louis M. Gomez. 2001. Connecting school and community with science learning: Real world problems and school-community partnerships as contextual scaffolds. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 38, Issue 8, pp.878-898
Brickhouse, N.W. and Jennifer T. Potter. 2001. Young women's scientific identity formation in an urban context. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 38, pp. 965-980
Freire, P. 2005 edition. Pedagogy of the Opressed (30 th anniversary edition). New York : Continuum. A seminal text on the challenges of education; especially relevant to New York City Teachers.
Hooks, B. 1994. Teaching to Trangress: Education and the Practice of Freedom. New York : Routledge.
Lopez, Nancy . 2003. Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys. Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. Taylor and Francis. Important study of Dominican-American secondary school experiences in New York City .
Nehm, R. H. 2004. Integrating the Dominican Republic Project with new approaches to multicultural urban science education. Geological Society of America Programs with Abstracts, Volume 36, No. 5, p. 13.
Student misconceptions of evolution and how to teach evolution
Bishop, B., & Anderson, C. 1990. Student Conceptions of Natural Selection and its Role in Evolution. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27, pp. 415-427.
Brumby, M. 1979. Problems in Learning the Concept of Natural Selection. Journal of Biological Education, 13, pp. 119-122.
Clough, E.E., & Wood-Robinson, C. 1985. How Secondary Students Interpret Instances of Biological Adaptation. Journal of Biological Education, 19, pp. 125-130.
Dagher,-Zoubeida-R.; BouJaoude,-Saouma. 1997 . Scientific Views and Religious Beliefs of College Students: The Case of Biological Evolution. Journal-of-Research-in-Science-Teaching, v 34 n5 p429-45 May.
Demastes,-Sherry-S.; and-others. 1995. Students' Conceptions of Natural Selection and Its Role in Evolution: Cases of Replication and Comparison. Journal-of-Research-in-Science-Teaching;v32 n5 p535-50 May.
Demastes,-Sherry-S.; and-others. 1995. Students' Conceptual Ecologies and the Process of Conceptual Change in Evolution. Science-Education, v 79 n6 p637-66 Nov.
Lawson,-Anton-E.; Weser,-John. 1990. The Rejection of Nonscientific Beliefs about Life: Effects of Instruction and Reasoning Skills. Journal-of-Research-in-Science-Teaching;v 27 n6 p589-606 Sep.
Lawson,-Anton-E.; Thompson,-Lois-D. 1988. Formal Reasoning Ability and Misconceptions concerning Genetics and Natural Selection. Journal-of-Research-in-Science-Teaching;v25 n9 p733-46 Dec.
Lederman, N.G. 1998. Teaching About Evolution and The Nature of Science in National Academy of Sciences, editor. National Academy Press, Washington D.C.
Scharmann,-Lawrence-C. 1990. Enhancing an Understanding of the Premises of Evolutionary Theory: The Influence of a Diversified Instructional Strategy. School-Science-and-Mathematics;v 90 n2 p91-100 Feb.
