Introduction.- Why science education for diversity? Nasser Mansour and Rupert Wegerif.- Part 1. Science education reform for diversity.- Chapter 1: Dialogic Science Education for Diversity, Rupert Wegerif, Keith Postlethwaite, Nigel Skinner, Nasser Mansour, Alun Morgan, Lindsay Hetherington.- Chapter2: Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Re-conceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society, Xiufeng Liu.- Chapter3: Activity, Subjectification, and Personality: Science Education from a Diversity-of-Life Perspective, Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria.- Chapter 4: Reflexivity and diversity in research on science education: A European account, Michiel van Eijck.- Part 2, from learning to pedagogy.- Chapter 5: Science education for diversity and informal learning, Loran E. Parker and Gerald H. Krockover.- Chapter 6: Diverse, disengaged and reactive: A teacher's adaptation of ethical dilemma story pedagogy as a strategy to re-engage learners in education for sustainability, Elisabeth Taylor, Peter Charles Taylor and MeiLing Chow.- Chapter 7: Tracing science in the early childhood classroom: the historicity of multi-resourced discourse practices in multilingual interaction, Charles Max, Gudrun Ziegler and Martin Kracheel.- Chapter 8: Conceptual frameworks, metaphysical commitments and worldviews: the challenge of reflecting the relationships between science and religion in science education, Keith S. Taber.- Chapter 9: Science Curriculum Reform on "Scientific Literacy for All" across National Contexts: Case Studies of Curricula from England and Hong Kong, Sibel Erduran and Siu Ling Wong.- Part 3 science teacher Education and diversity.- Chapter 10: Science teachers' cultural beliefs and diversities: A sociocultural perspective to science education, Nasser Mansour.- Chapter 11: Envisioning Science Teacher Preparation for Diversity in 21^st Century Classrooms: Some Tensions, Norm Thomson, Deborah J. Tippins.- Chapter12: Expanded agency in multilingual science teacher training classrooms, Silvia Lizette Ramos De Robles & Mariona Espinet.- Part 4 Cultural issues in science Education.- Chapter 13: Re-conceptualizing a lifelong science education system that supports diversity: The role of free-choice learning, Lynn D. Dierking.- Chapter 14: Ignoring half the Sky: A feminist critique of science education's knowledge society, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anita Hussénius, Kristina Andersson and Annica Gullberg.- Chapter 15: Religion in Science Education, Michael J. Reiss.- Chapter 16: Students' perceptions of apparent contradictions between science and religion: Creation is only the beginning, Berry Billingsley.- Chapter 17: Gender and science in the Arab states: Current status and future prospects, Saouma BouJaoude & Ghada Gholam.