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Empowering science and mathematics education in urban schools / Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton with Erin E. Turner and Maura Varley Gutierrez.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tan, Edna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching (Middle school).
- Science.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching (Middle school).
- Mathematics.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- City children--Education.
- City children.
- Educational equalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with some of the poorest students-those who would benefit most-going egregiously underserved. This ongoing problem with education highlights one of the core causes of the widening class gap. While this educational inequality can be attributed to a number of economic and political causes, in Empowering Science
- Contents:
- Changing the discourse on equity and math and science for all
- Empowering teaching and learning in math and science education
- Critical mathematical agency in the overcrowding at Francis Middle School project
- A narrative pedagogy for critical science literacy
- Becoming an expert: critical engagement with science and the community
- Community spaces as a part of hybrid math learning spaces: integrating multiple funds of knowledge
- Hybrid spaces for empowering learning in math and science.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613809520
- 9781282166455
- 128216645X
- 9780226037998
- 0226037991
- OCLC:
- 802262023
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