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Title Democratic science teaching : building the expertise to empower low-income minority youth in science / edited by Sreyashi Jhumki Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan
Published Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 127 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Cultural perspectives in science education: Research dialogs ; v. 3
Cultural perspectives in science education. Research dialogs ; v. 3.
Contents Introduction -- Youth voices: challenging the outcomes of science education -- Improvisation with/in science: expanding worlds and lives -- Participating in and transforming communities of practice -- Deliberative democracy in an urban elementary science classroom -- Teaching for democratic reconstruction: a science classroom in rural South Africa -- Citizenship and the three C's -- Why democratic science teaching matters
Summary Democratic science pedagogy has the potential to shape learning outcomes and science engagement by taking on directly issues of pedagogy, learning, and social justice. In this text we provide a framework for democratic science teaching in order to interrogate the purposes and goals of science education in classrooms globally, as well as to call attention to ways of being in the classroom that position teachers and students as important and powerful participants in their own learning and as change-agents of a larger global society. We develop three core conceptual tools for democratic science teaching, that together frame ways of thinking and being in classrooms that work towards a more just world: Voice, Authority, and Critical Science Literacy. Each conceptual tool is developed in the introductory chapters then taken up in different pedagogical and analytic ways in the chapters that span the text. The chapters present researcher, teacher, and student centered lenses for investigating democratic science education and reflect elementary through high school education, both in school and out of school, in the US and globally
Analysis Education
Science Education
onderwijs
natuurwetenschappelijk onderwijs
Education (General)
Onderwijs (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-127)
In Springer eBooks
Subject Science -- Study and teaching
SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching.
Sciences sociales.
Droit.
Sciences humaines.
Science -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
Author Basu, Sreyashi Jhumki.
Calabrese Barton, Angela.
Tan, Edna.
ISBN 9789460913709
9460913709