Editors:
- Applies critical theoretical scholarship to mainstream practices in science and technology education
- First volume examining conceptual and empirical issues of activist science and technology education
- Explores specific pedagogical themes within compulsory schooling (K-12) and non-formal and informal educational contexts
- Gathers together leading authors, all internationally recognised for their work in the area of activist science education
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE, volume 9)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Constituting Theories
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Front Matter
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The Public Sphere
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Front Matter
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About this book
This collection examines issues of agency, power, politics and identity as they relate to science and technology and education, within contemporary settings. Social, economic and ecological critique and reform are examined by numerous contributing authors, from a range of international contexts. These chapters examine pressing pedagogical questions within socio-scientific contexts, including petroleum economies, food justice, health, environmentalism, climate change, social media and biotechnologies.
Readers will discover far reaching inquiries into activism as an open question for science and technology education, citizenship and democracy. The authors call on the work of prominent scholars throughout the ages, including Bourdieu, Foucault, Giroux, Jasanoff, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Rancière and Žižek.
The application of critical theoretical scholarship to mainstream practices in science and technology education distinguishes this book, and this deep, theoretical treatment is complemented by many grounded, more pragmatic exemplars of activist pedagogies. Practical examples are set within the public sphere, within selected new social movements, and also within more formal institutional settings, including elementary and secondary schools, and higher education.
These assembled discussions provide a basis for a more radically reflexive reworking of science and technology education. Educational policy makers, science education scholars, and science and technology educators, amongst others, will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.
Editors and Affiliations
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Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
John Bencze
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Faculty of Education and Department of Science and Technology Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
Steve Alsop
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Activist Science and Technology Education
Editors: John Bencze, Steve Alsop
Series Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4360-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4359-5Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7960-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4360-1Published: 05 June 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-7229
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7237
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 652
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations