Science Education from People for People

Taking a Stand(point)

Edited by Wolff-Michael Roth

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Taking a Stand(point): Introduction to a Science (Education) from People for People
Wolff-Michael Roth

PART I: CULTURING KNOWLEDGES

Introduction

2. Revisiting and Reconsidering Authenticity in Science Education:
Theory and the Lived Experiences of two African American Females
Eileen Carlton Parsons

3. Faith in a Seed: Social Memory, Local Knowledge, and Scientific Practice
Carol B. Brandt

4. Language and Experience of Self in Science and Transnational Migration
SungWon Hwang & Wolff-Michael Roth

5. Reality Pedagogy: Hip Hop Culture and the Urban Science Classroom
Chris Emdin

6. Sister City, Sister Science: Science Education for Sustainable Living and Learning in the New Borderlands
Katherine Richardson Bruna, Hannah Lewis

7. Cultural Encounters, Countering Enculturation: Metalogues about Cultures and School Science
Carol B. Brandt, Chris Emdin, SungWon Hwang, Eileen Parsons, Katherine Richardson Bruna, Wolff-Michael Roth

PART II: OTHERING THE SELF, SELFING THE OTHER

Introduction

8. Mothering and science literacy: Challenging Truth-Making and Authority through Counterstory
Angela Barton Calabrese

9. Living with Chronic Illness: An Institutional Ethnography of the (Medical) Science and Scientific Literacy in Everyday Life
Wolff-Michael Roth

10. A Stranger in a "Real" Land: Engineering Expertise in on an Engineering Campus
Karen Tonso

11. Diversity of Knowledges and Contradictions: A Metalogue
Angela Barton Calabrese, Karen Tonso, Wolff-Michael Roth

EPILOGUE

12. Appreciating Difference in and for Itself: An Epilogue
Wolff-Michael Roth

Index

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