SECONDARY SCIENCE EDUCATION "Implication of science education in Brunei 21st Century Education system" One of philosophical debates in education literature focuses on inclusion of multicultural science in science education, multicultural science is seen as important because it can function as pedagogical stepping stone especially for multicultural students of science (Atwater and Riley, 1993; Hodson, 1993; Stanley and Brickhouse, 1994). Ogawa (1995) stresses that "science students must work through both individual and indigenous science understandings in the course of constructing their knowledge of modern science that every culture has its own science and refers to the science in given culture as indigenous science" (Ogawa, 1995, p. 585). According to Ogawa (1995), people must distinguish between two levels of science: individual or personal science and cultural or societal science, referring science as culture dependent collective rational perceiving of reality ...