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Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice

Author : Matthew Weinstein
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031393309
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice written by Matthew Weinstein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States. The common goal of these educators is to produce more socially/ecologically just models and practices of science education. The book considers and reworks the key-terms of current social justice: agency, realism, justice, and power. Its first section explores re-inhabiting science in the quest for more just worlds including reterritorializing science within emergent theories of critical realism, engaging citizens activists with corporate science, and challenging neoliberalism and the forces that organize (structure) knowledge. The second section redefines praxis of science education itself through nuanced explorations of agency, decolonialism, and justice in ways that emphasize complexity, hybridity, ambivalence, and contradiction. The stories of this international group capture individual and collective efforts, motivated by a persistent sense that science and science education matter for questions of justice.

Educating for Eco-justice and Community

Author : C. A. Bowers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820323060
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Educating for Eco-justice and Community by : C. A. Bowers

Download or read book Educating for Eco-justice and Community written by C. A. Bowers and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We believe in social justice. We support educational reform. Yet unless we reframe our approaches to both, says C. A. Bowers, the social justice attained through educational reform will only lead to more intractable forms of consumerism and further impoverishment of our communities. In Educating for Eco-Justice and Community Bowers outlines a strategy for educational reform that confronts the rapid degradation of our ecosystems by renewing the face-to-face, intergenerational traditions that can serve as alternatives to our hyper-consumerist, technology-driven worldview. Bowers explains how current technological and progressive programs of educational reform operate on deep cultural assumptions that came out of the Enlightenment and led to the Industrial Revolution. These beliefs frame our relationship with nature in adversarial terms, view progress as inevitable, and elevate the individual over community, expertise over intergenerational knowledge, and profit over reciprocity. By making eco-justice a priority of educational reform, we can begin to: democratize developments in science and technology in ways that eliminate eco-racism; reverse the global processes that are worsening the economic and political inequities between the hemispheres; expose the cultural forces that turn aspects of daily life--from education and entertainment to work and leisure--into market-dependent relationships; uplift knowledge and traditions of intergenerationally connected communities; and develop a sense of moral responsibility for the long-term consequences of our excessive material demands. In the tradition of Wendell Berry, David Orr, and Kirkpatrick Sale, Bowers thinks about our place in the natural world and the current economies to show how we can reform education and create a less consumer-driven society.

Justice and Equity in Climate Change Education

Author : Elizabeth M. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000517160
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Justice and Equity in Climate Change Education written by Elizabeth M. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the ways in which climate change education relates to broader ideas of justice, equity, and social transformation, and ultimately calls for a rapid response to the need for climate education reform. Highlighting the role of climate change in exacerbating existing societal injustices, this text explores the ethical and social dimensions of climate change education, including identity, agency, and societal structure, and in doing so problematizes climate change education as an equity concern. Chapters present empirical analysis, underpinned by a theoretical framework, and case studies which provide critical insights for the design of learning environments, curricula, and everyday climate change-related learning in schools. This text will benefit researchers, academics, educators, and policymakers with an interest in science education, social justice studies, and environmental sociology more broadly. Those specifically interested in climate education, curriculum studies, and climate adaption will also benefit from this book.

Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

Author : Kalea Benner, PhD, MSW, LCSW
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826135390
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice by : Kalea Benner, PhD, MSW, LCSW

Download or read book Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice written by Kalea Benner, PhD, MSW, LCSW and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text is the first to introduce practical techniques social workers can use to incorporate social, economic, and environmental justice into their practice. The book emphasizes the role of justice in social work practice across the micro-macro spectrum. By assessing common human needs in relation to human rights, justice, and practice aimed at promoting fairness, students will learn how to incorporate theories and practical perspectives in social work practice with individuals, families, communities, and organizations. With its unique approach, this text focuses on structural oppression and inequities connected to clients' engagement in systems and structures. The impact of disparities on accessing and utilizing resources, and subsequently achieving successful outcomes, is examined through the justice lens. Beginning with an overview of key concepts and theoretical underpinnings that provide foundational knowledge, the text then examines each of the three justice foci --social, economic, and environmental--in detail through specific systems. These systems include criminal justice, education, food security, natural disasters and climate change, health, mental health, housing, and income disparities Throughout the book, readers are asked to reflect on their own perceptions to enhance understanding of the influence of justice on practice. Case studies, diagrams, boxed information, student learning outcomes, chapter summaries, and review questions enhance understanding and application of content. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Emphasizes the role of social, economic, and environmental justice in social work practice Examines the science and theory behind justice as it relates to social work Teaches practical methods for implementing justice-oriented social work practice Authored by prominent instructors actively engaged in co-curricular justice-related content Offers student learning outcomes and summaries in each chapter Presents abundant diagrams and boxes to enhance application of content Provides multiple experiential learning opportunities including case examples and reflective and knowledge-based review questions Offers practical examples of justice-informed social work Includes Instructor's Manual with sample syllabus, PowerPoints, exam questions, and media resources

Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students

Author : Robyn Jorgensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9814021849
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students by : Robyn Jorgensen

Download or read book Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students written by Robyn Jorgensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes research undertaken by leading Australian researcher in Indigenous communities. While the chapters are Australian in their focus, the issues that are discussed are similar to those in other countries where there are indigenous people. In most cases, in Australia and internationally, Indigenous learners are not succeeding in school, thus making the transition into work and adulthood quite tenuous in terms of mainstream measures. The importance of being literate and numerate are critical in success in school and life in general, thus making this collection an important contribution to the international literature. The collection of works describes a wide range of projects where the focus has been on improving the literacy and numeracy outcomes for Indigenous students. The chapters take various approaches to improving these outcomes, and have very different foci. These foci include aspects of literacy, numeracy, curriculum leadership, ICTs, whole school planning, policy, linguistics and Indigenous perspectives. Most of the chapters report on large scale projects that have used some innovation in their focus. The book draws together these projects so that a more connected sense of the complexities and diversity of approaches can be gleaned.

Critical Voices in Science Education Research

Author : Jesse Bazzul
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319999907
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Critical Voices in Science Education Research written by Jesse Bazzul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and/or science teacher educator, with the hope that through solidarity, commonality, and “telling the story”, justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys. Being a scholar and teacher that sees science education as a space for justice, and thinking/being different, entry into this disciplinary field often comes with tense moments and personal difficulties. The chapter authors of this book break into many painful, awkward, and seemingly nebulous topics, including the intersectional nuances of what it means to be a researcher in the contexts of epistemic rigidness, white supremacy, and neoliberal restructuring. Of course these contexts become different depending on how teachers, students, and researchers are constituted within them (as racialized/sexed/gendered/disposable/valued subjects). We hope that within these narratives readers will identify with similar struggles in terms of what it means to desire to “do good in the world”, while facing subtle and not-so-subtle institutional, personal cultural, and political challenges.

Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation

Author : Christopher Emdin
Publisher : Brill / Sense
ISBN 13 : 9789087909864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation by : Christopher Emdin

Download or read book Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation written by Christopher Emdin and published by Brill / Sense. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science and technology; a master's degree in natural sciences; and a bachelor's degree in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry. His book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation is rooted in his experiences as student, teacher, administrator, and researcher in urban schools and the deep relationship between hip-hop culture and science that he discovered at every stage of his academic and professional journey. The book utilizes autobiography, outcomes of research studies, theoretical explorations, and accounts of students' experiences in schools to shed light on the causes for the lack of educational achievement of urban youth from the hip-hop generation.

A People's Curriculum for the Earth

Author : Bill Bigelow
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
ISBN 13 : 0942961579
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Book Synopsis A People's Curriculum for the Earth by : Bill Bigelow

Download or read book A People's Curriculum for the Earth written by Bill Bigelow and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution—as well as on people who are working to make things better. A People’s Curriculum for the Earth has the breadth and depth ofRethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World, one of the most popular books we’ve published. At a time when it’s becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what’s wrong and imagine solutions. Praise for A People's Curriculum for the Earth "To really confront the climate crisis, we need to think differently, build differently, and teach differently. A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is an educator’s toolkit for our times." — Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate "This volume is a marvelous example of justice in ALL facets of our lives—civil, social, educational, economic, and yes, environmental. Bravo to the Rethinking Schools team for pulling this collection together and making us think more holistically about what we mean when we talk about justice." — Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Bigelow and Swinehart have created a critical resource for today’s young people about humanity’s responsibility for the Earth. This book can engender the shift in perspective so needed at this point on the clock of the universe." — Gregory Smith, Professor of Education, Lewis & Clark College, co-author with David Sobel of Place- and Community-based Education in Schools

Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies and Environments

Author : Larry Bencze
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319555057
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies and Environments written by Larry Bencze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides theoretical and practical resources relating to the ‘STEPWISE’ curricular and instructional framework. ‘STEPWISE’ is the acronym for Science & Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing for Individuals, Societies & Environments. It is a framework for organizing teaching and learning domains in ways that prioritize personal and social actions to address ‘critical socioscientific issues’ — that is, controversial decisions by powerful individuals/groups about science and technology (and related fields) that may adversely affect individuals, societies and/or environments. The book contains chapters written by and/or with teachers who have used STEPWISE to guide their instructional practices, as well as chapters written by education scholars who have used a range of theoretical lenses to analyze and evaluate STEPWISE — and, in several cases, described ways in which it relates to (or could relate to) their practices and/or ways in which the framework might logically be amended. Overall, this book offers educators, policy makers and others with resources useful for arranging science and technology education in ways that may assist societies in addressing significant potential personal, social and/or environmental problems — such as dramatic climate change, preventable human diseases, species losses, and social injustices — associated with fields of science and technology.

Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

Author : Maria F. G. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030796221
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene by : Maria F. G. Wallace

Download or read book Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene written by Maria F. G. Wallace and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 education—the way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratories—is 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.

The Urban Education Sourcebook on Instruction and Supervision

Author : Tiffany A. Flowers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527517535
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis The Urban Education Sourcebook on Instruction and Supervision by : Tiffany A. Flowers

Download or read book The Urban Education Sourcebook on Instruction and Supervision written by Tiffany A. Flowers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Education Sourcebook on Instruction and Supervision text focuses on instructional issues and supervision within the 21st century, which can impact achievement issues for students within urban contexts. This edited text includes issues which help prepare both pre-service and in-service teachers by focusing on both the current practice considerations in the field and academic instruction issues. Some of the topics in this book include issues related to S.T.E.M., Sciences, ESL, ELA, transmedia, and afterschool programs. Additionally, this text includes a wide range of activities, key vocabulary, and suggested readings for students who take this course.

Ambitious Science Teaching

Author : Mark Windschitl
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1682531643
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Ambitious Science Teaching written by Mark Windschitl and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is organized around four sets of core teaching practices: planning for engagement with big ideas; eliciting student thinking; supporting changes in students’ thinking; and drawing together evidence-based explanations. Discussion of each practice includes tools and routines that teachers can use to support students’ participation, transcripts of actual student-teacher dialogue and descriptions of teachers’ thinking as it unfolds, and examples of student work. The book also provides explicit guidance for “opportunity to learn” strategies that can help scaffold the participation of diverse students. Since the success of these practices depends so heavily on discourse among students, Ambitious Science Teaching includes chapters on productive classroom talk. Science-specific skills such as modeling and scientific argument are also covered. Drawing on the emerging research on core teaching practices and their extensive work with preservice and in-service teachers, Ambitious Science Teaching presents a coherent and aligned set of resources for educators striving to meet the considerable challenges that have been set for them.

Teaching Science for Social Justice

Author : Angela Calabrese Barton
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807777447
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Science for Social Justice written by Angela Calabrese Barton and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might science education reflect the values of a socially just and democratic society? How do urban youth living in poverty construct science in their lives in ways that are enriching, empowering, and transformative? Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume: Offers a series of teaching stories that describes youth’s practices of science, providing 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, including utility, pragmatism, and doing good for others.Shows how science connects to the lives of youth both in and out of school. Builds on and critiques current reform initiatives in science education.Features stories taken from six years of teaching and research in after-school science programs with children and youth in homeless shelters.Illustrates how the children’s unique situations framed their constructions of science in compelling and challenging ways.

Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice

Author : Steven H. Emerman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300437928
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice by : Steven H. Emerman

Download or read book Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice written by Steven H. Emerman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation Science is the practice of using the knowledge and methods of science to solve the social and environmental problems faced by the poor. Liberation Science can address these problems because it has been freed from the flawed scientific paradigms that are linked to the flawed social paradigms of nationalism and capitalism. Three themes of Liberation Science are: 1) The definition of an ecosystem becomes both more expansive and more holistic to include humans, cultural practices, and the built environment, together with the possibility that an ecosystem could mimic the behavior of a single organism. 2) The logic and methods of science are made available to ordinary people, empowering them to understand the ecologies of their own communities. 3) Science becomes open to complementary philosophical approaches that draw upon cultural and spiritual traditions of particular regions or communities.

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Author : Julie Sze
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520971981
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger written by Julie Sze and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does this moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packed with cautiously hopeful stories for the future.

Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters

Author : Jesse Bazzul
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319391321
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters written by Jesse Bazzul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encapsulates a line of research that looks at how students are positioned as ethical actors/decision makers in biology education by science policy, curriculum, and classroom resources. Its basis comes from a textbook study that examined how biology texts work to constitute subjectivities related to neoliberalism and global capitalism, sex/gender and sexuality, and ethics. The study found that textbook discourses set limits on a) the types of ethical concerns represented b) the modes of ethical engagement c) the dispositions necessary to engage in ethical action or decision-making. Policy reform, regulation, and personal lifestyle choices were the primary ways students could approach ethical decision-making or action. While these approaches are useful, they are likely not sufficient for dealing with major twenty first century problems such as climate change and social inequality, along with new ethical dimensions introduced by biotechnologies and genomic research. This research brief sets a context for how discourses of science education policy and curricula work to shape a ‘subject of ethics’, that is how students come to see themselves as participants in issues of ethical concern. Drawing from a structural-poststructural philosophical approach, Science and Technology Studies, educational research, and a methodology based on discourse analysis and ethnography, this book's overall goal is to assist with research into subjectivity, ethics, politics, policy, and socioscientific issues in science education.

The Natural World and Science Education in the United States

Author : Ajay Sharma
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319761862
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Natural World and Science Education in the United States written by Ajay Sharma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States. Given the importance of our relationship with the nonhuman world for the fate of our planet, this work gives special attention to the representation, instruction, and understanding of the relationship between the social and the natural world. It also proposes an alternative, sustainability science-based conceptual framework for ecology and environmental science topics in science education, which is compatible with the current social-ecological understanding of life in the Anthropocene epoch.