Reimagining science education in the Anthropocene / Maria F.G. Wallace, Jesse Bazzul, Marc Higgins, Sara Tolbert, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallace, Maria F. G., editor.

Bazzul, Jesse, editor.

Higgins, Marc, 1981- editor.

Tolbert, Sara, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in education and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching--Philosophy.

Science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science educationthe way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratoriesis ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity. Maria F.G. Wallace is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. Jesse Bazzul is Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Regina, Canada. Marc Higgins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he is affiliated with the Faculty of Educations Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP). Sara Tolbert is Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. "Trees Don't Sing! ... Eagle Feather Has No Power!" Be Wary of the Potential Numbing Effects of School Science

3. Tracing a Black Hole: Probing Cosmic Darkness in Anthropocenic Times

4. The Waring Worlds of H.G. Wells: The Entangled Histories of Education, Sociobiology, Post-Genomics, and Science Fiction

5. Creating Magical Research: Writing for a Felt Reality in a More-Than-Human World

6. Fire as Unruly Kin: Curriculum Silences and Human Responses

7. Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity through Thinking with Kim Tallbear

8. Decolonizing Healing through Indigenous Ways of Knowing

9. Still Joy: A Call for Wonder(ing) in Science Education as Anti-Racist Vibrant Life-Living

10. The Salt of the Earth (Inspired by Cherokee Creation Story)

11. The Science of Data, Data Science: Perversions and Possibilities in the Anthropocene through a Spatial Justice Lens

12. Science and Environment Education in the Times of the Anthropocene: Some Reflections from India

13. Rethinking Historical Approaches for Science Education in the Anthropocene

14. Reflections on Teaching and Learning Chemistry through Youth Participatory Science

15. Learning from Flint: How Matter Imposes Itself in the Anthropocene and What That Means for Education

16. Resurrecting Science Education by Re-Inserting Women, Nature, and Complexity

17. Watchmen, Scientific Imaginaries, and the Capitalocene: The Media and Their Messages for Science Educators

18. Curricular Experiments for Peace in Colombia: Re-imagining Science Education in Post-Conflict Societies

19. A Feral Atlas for the Anthropocene: An Interview with Anna L. Tsing

20. In Conversation with Fikile Nxumalo: Refiguring Onto-Epistemic Attunements for Im/possible Science Pedagogies

21. In Conversation with Vicki Kirby: Deconstruction, Critique, and Human Exceptionalism in the Anthropocene

22. Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Hayward

23. Conclusion

Another Complicated Conversation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: REIMAGINING SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE.

ISBN:

9783030796228

3030796221

OCLC:

1288422160

Access Restriction:

Open access

Restricted for use by site license.