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

    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 nature of science as process and product; and
    • achieves these two objectives in a readable but scholarly way.

    Opposing the tendency to teach and do research as if science, science education, and scientific literacy could be imposed from the outside, the authors want science education to be for people rather than strictly about how knowledge gets into their heads. Taking up the challenges of this orientation, science educators can begin to make inroads into the currently widespread irrelevance of science in the everyday lives of people. Utmost attention has been given to making this book readable by the people from whose lives the topics of the chapters emerge, all the while retaining academic integrity and high-level scholarship.

     

    Wolff Michael Roth has been awarded the Distinguished Contributions Award by The National Association for Research in Science Teaching, for his contributions to research  in this field.

    He has also been elected to be the Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

     

    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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