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

by Roth; Wolff-michael

• ISBN13: 9780415995559
• ISBN10: 0415995558
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135844776
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the lives of real people, this book takes up the challenge of building an approach to science education from the standpoint of the learner. With this orientation to science and scientific literacy, science educators can begin to make inroads into the currently widespread irrelevance of science in the everyday lives of people.

Table of Contents

Science Education and Institutional Ethnography: An Introduction

Culturing Knowledges

Particularities in relation to Western Science: Authenticity derived from the Life Spaces of an Elderly and a Young Adult African American Female

Faith in a Seed: Social Memory, Local Knowledge, and Scientific Practice

Language and Experience of the Self in Science and Transnational Migration

Reality pedagogy: Hip Hop culture and the Urban Science Classroom

Sister City, Sister Science: Science Education for Sustainable Rural Living in the New Borderlands

Metalogue: Culturing Knowledges-Lessons for Science Education

Othering The Self, Selfing The Other

Crafting new forms of community knowledge about having babies

Scientific Literacy Through the Lens of (Chronical) Illness

Teacher as Knower and Learner Revisited: Situated Knowledge in the Era of No Child Left Behind

Engineering Expertise in Engineering Education: A Stranger in a "Real" Land

Metalogue: Othering the Self, Selfing the Other

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