International Response for Part V: Equity and Diversity in Science Education and Academia: A South American Perspective

Abstract

When seeking an international perspective, we often look at those countries where students “do well” (at least according to international exams) in science. Something apparently works in all those “successful” countries, and the challenge is to find out what works and why, in an attempt to replicate it at home. Yet, if we want to extend the conversation to other contexts and other issues, a question remains to be asked: what can we learn from other types of perspectives? What can the analysis of experiences from countries usually considered to be at the margins bring to the table when we inquire about science education in the USA? In this commentary, I provide such an international perspective: a South American vision, particularly a view from the Argentine context, with the hope of building together deeper understandings of the issues we share as a science education community of practice.