1st Edition

Science Education from People for People Taking a Stand(point)

Edited By Wolff-Michael Roth Copyright 2009
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns within or outside school; develops a new form of scholarship based on the dialogic... Read more

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

Biography

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Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria, Canada.

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