Improving Urban Science Education New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers

by Tobin, Kenneth; Elmesky, Rowhea; Seiler, Gale; Beers, Jennifer; Butler, Lacie; Carambo, Cristobal; LaVan, Sarah-Kate; Loman, Linda; Martin, Sonya; Milne, Catherine; Olitsky, Stacy; Otieno, Tracey; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Scantlebury, Kathryn; Sterba, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9780742537057
• ISBN10: 0742537056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	xix
Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler
1 The Who, What, Where, and How of Our Urban Ethnographic Research	1	(20)
Gale Seiler and Rowhea Elmesky
2 Urban Science as a Culturally and Socially Adaptive Practice	21	(22)
Kenneth Tobin
3 Painting the Landscape: Urban Schools and Urban Classrooms	43	(22)
Gale Seiler and Lacie Butler
4 Organizational Mediation of Urban Science	65	(24)
Wolff-Michael Roth
5 Playin on the Streets-Solidarity in the Classroom: Weak Cultural Boundaries and the Implications for Urban Science Education	89	(24)
Rowhea Elmesky
6 All My Life I Been Po': Oral Fluency as a Resource for Science Teaching and Learning	113	(18)
Gale Seiler
7 Becoming an Urban Science Teacher: The First Three Years	131	(16)
Jennifer Beers
8 The Role of Cogenerative Dialogue in Learning to Teach and Transforming Learning Environments	147	(18)
Sarah-Kate La Van and Jennifer Beers
9 Learning Science and the Centrality of Student Participation	165	(16)
Cristobal Carambo
10 Female Sexuality as Agency and Oppression in Urban Science Classrooms	181	(16)
Melissa Sterba
11 Meeting the Needs and Adapting to the Capital of a Queen Mother and an Ol' Head: Gender Equity in Urban High School Science	197	(10)
Kathryn Scantlebury
12 Paperclips + Polymers -> Problems: Learning to Use Levels of Representation in a High School Chemistry Classroom	207	(18)
Tracey Otieno and Catherine Milne
13 An Autobiographical Approach to Becoming a Science Teacher in an Urban High School	225	(20)
Sonya N. Martin
14 Beyond Either-Or: Reconsidering Resources in Terms of Structures	245	(16)
Sarah-Kate La Van
15 My Cultural Awakening in the Classroom	261	(18)
Linda Loman
16 Social and Cultural Capital in Science Teaching: Relating Practice and Reflection	279	(20)
Stacy Olitsky
17 Transforming the Future while Learning from the Past	299	(22)
Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler
References	321	(8)
About the Contributors	329	(4)
Index	333