Teaching Science for Social Justice

by Barton, Angela Calabrese; Ermer, Jason L.; Burkett, Tanahia A.; Osborne, Margery D.

• ISBN13: 9780807743836
• ISBN10: 0807743836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume; provides valuable insight to help teachers work with inner-city youth; explores the importance of inclusiveness, membership rules, and the purposes and goals of good science; and shows how science connects to the lives of youth both in and out of school.

Author Biography

Angela Calabrese Barton is an associate professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University Jason L. Ermer is a math and computer science educator in the Kealing Junior High School Magnet Program in Austin, Texas Tanahia A. Burkett is an elementary school teacher in the New Orleans Parish public schools Margery D. Osborne is an associate professor of science education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
1. Overview: Youth Lives and Youth Science	1	(18)
The Tunnel	1	(5)
Why Use Youth Stories to Make a Case for Urban Science Education?	6	(4)
Learning in Context	10	(6)
Looking Ahead: The Stories in This Text	16	(3)
2. Learning with Urban Youth	19	(27)
The Contradictions of Doing Science in and out of School: Kobe's Story	19	(4)
Science for All: The Issues That Divide	23	(11)
A Practice of Science in Urban Settings	34	(8)
Applying a Practice of Science Perspective to Our Work with Urban Youth	42	(1)
Looking Ahead	43	(3)
3. Living in the Borderland	46	(20)
Introduction: Worlds Apart	47	(2)
Living Within the Margins	49	(2)
Margin-Center Separation: Claudia's and Juan's Stories	51	(1)
Claudia	51	(6)
Juan	57	(4)
Using the Margins for Strength	61	(3)
Looking Ahead	64	(2)
4. Power and Co-opting Science Spaces	66	(27)
Power and Co-opting Science Spaces	67	(1)
Power and Resistance	68	(3)
Power and Science Education	71	(1)
Junior	72	(5)
Iris	77	(4)
Disrupting Power Through Science	81	(7)
Co-opting Science Spaces	88	(3)
Looking Ahead	91	(2)
5. Relevant Science: Activating Resources in Nonstandard Ways	93	(27)
The Beginnings of a Picnic Table	93	(4)
Relevant Science	97	(1)
Ruben and the Picnic Table	98	(5)
Relevant Science and the Picnic Table	103	(1)
New Forms of Expert Knowledge, Skills, and Capabilities	104	(9)
Authorship as a Community Practice	113	(3)
Relevant Science	116	(2)
Looking Ahead	118	(2)
6. Transformations: Science as a Tool for Change	120	(18)
Getting to Know Darkside	120	(6)
Darkside and the Community Garden	126	(1)
Transformations	127	(8)
Looking Ahead	135	(3)
7. Building Communities in Support of Youth's Science Practices	138	(20)
Community and Science Among Homeless Youth	139	(5)
Building Science Communities in Support of Youth Lives and Practices of Science	144	(9)
Community, Science Education, and Urban Youth	153	(3)
Looking Ahead	156	(2)
8. Empowering Science Education and Youth's Practices of Science	158	(13)
Building a Socially Just World	158	(2)
Looking Across the Themes That Frame Youth's Practices of Science	160	(2)
Questioning the Future	162	(5)
Looking Ahead: Why Science Education?	167	(4)
Appendix A: Data on Target Children	171	(2)
Appendix B: Child Study Framework	173	(4)
Notes	177	(2)
References	179	(8)
Index	187	(10)
About the Authors	197