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Teaching science for social justice / Angela Calabrese Barton with Jason L. Ermer ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library LB1585.3 .B37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calabrese Barton, Angela.
- Series:
- Teaching for social justice series
- The teaching for social justice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Science.
- Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States--Activity programs--Case studies.
- Science--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Social justice.
- Education, Urban--Social aspects.
- Poor children--Education.
- Social aspects.
- Poor children.
- Science--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
- Science--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- Poor children--Education--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Education, Urban--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Education, Urban.
- Social justice--United States--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1. Overview: Youth Lives and Youth Science 1
- The Tunnel 1
- Why Use Youth Stories to Make a Case for Urban Science Education? 6
- Learning in Context 10
- Looking Ahead: The Stories in This Text 16
- 2. Learning with Urban Youth 19
- The Contradictions of Doing Science in and out of School: Kobe's Story 19
- Science for All: The Issues That Divide 23
- A Practice of Science in Urban Settings 34
- Applying a Practice of Science Perspective to Our Work with Urban Youth 42
- 3. Living in the Borderland 46
- Introduction: Worlds Apart 47
- Living Within the Margins 49
- Margin-Center Separation: Claudia's and Juan's Stories 51
- Claudia 51
- Juan 57
- Using the Margins for Strength 61
- 4. Power and Co-opting Science Spaces 66
- Power and Co-opting Science Spaces 67
- Power and Resistance 68
- Power and Science Education 71
- Junior 72
- Iris 77
- Disrupting Power Through Science 81
- Co-opting Science Spaces 88
- 5. Relevant Science: Activating Resources in Nonstandard Ways 93
- The Beginnings of a Picnic Table 93
- Relevant Science 97
- Ruben and the Picnic Table 98
- Relevant Science and the Picnic Table 103
- New Forms of Expert Knowledge, Skills, and Capabilities 104
- Authorship as a Community Practice 113
- Relevant Science 116
- 6. Transformations: Science as a Tool for Change 120
- Getting to Know Darkside 120
- Darkside and the Community Garden 126
- Transformations 127
- 7. Building Communities in Support of Youth's Science Practices 138
- Community and Science Among Homeless Youth 139
- Building Science Communities in Support of Youth Lives and Practices of Science 144
- Community, Science Education, and Urban Youth 153
- 8. Empowering Science Education and Youth's Practices of Science 158
- Building a Socially Just World 158
- Looking Across the Themes That Frame Youth's Practices of Science 160
- Questioning the Future 162
- Looking Ahead: Why Science Education? 167
- Appendix A Data on Target Children 171
- Appendix B Child Study Framework 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807743844
- 0807743836
- OCLC:
- 52092029
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