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Science education as/for sociopolitical action / edited by Wolff-Michael Roth and Jacques Désautels.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 210.
- Counterpoints ; v. 210
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching.
- Science.
- Postmodernism and education.
- Science and state--Citizen participation.
- Science and state.
- Technology and state--Citizen participation.
- Technology and state.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Science Education as/for Sociopolitical Action: Charting the Landscape / Wolff-Michael Roth, Jacques Desautels 1
- 2 Linking School Science Education with Action / Edgar W. Jenkins 17
- Cluster I Science Education in/through Environmental Activism 35
- 3 Learning Science in the Community / Stuart Lee, Wolff-Michael Roth 37
- 4 Breaking the Spell: Science Education for a Free Society / Wolff-Michael Roth, Stuart H. Lee 67
- Cluster II From Teaching STS to Enacting Science at the Grassroots Level: Shifting Agency 97
- 5 Teaching Controversial Science for Social Responsibility: The Case of Food Production / Roger Cross, Ronald Price 99
- 6 Beyond the Bold Rhetoric of Reform: (Re)Learning to Teach Science Appropriately / Kenneth Tobin 125
- 7 Whose Scientific Knowledge? The Colonizer and the Colonized / Glen Aikenhead 151
- 8 Reconstructing the Harsh World: Science with/for Social Action / Angela Calabrese Barton, Margery D. Osborne 167
- 9 The Language of Science and the Meaning of Abortion / Nancy Lawrence, Margaret Eisenhart 185
- Cluster III Science Education as (Subversive) Epistemological Praxis 207
- 10 Science Education as an Exercise in Disciplining versus a Practice of/for Social Empowerment / Marie Larochelle 209
- 11 The Enactment of Epistemological Practice as Subversive Social Action, the Provocation of Power, and Anti-modernism / Jacques Desautels, Stephen Fleury, Jim Garrison 237
- 12 From Science to Epistemology and Back / Wolff-Michael Roth, G. Michael Bowen 271.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820456969
- OCLC:
- 47650641
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