Democratic Science Teaching: Building the Expertise to Empower Low-Income Minority Youth in Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Angela Calabrese Barton, Jhumki Basu, Verneda Johnson, Edna Tan

   Pages 1-20

3. Youth Voices

   • Jhumki Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton, Neile Clairmont, Donya Locke

   Pages 21-40

4. Improvisation With/in Science

   • Tara O’Neill

   Pages 41-54

5. Participating in and Transforming Communities of Practice

   • Hayat Alhoyokem, Angela Calabrese Barton, Donya Locke

   Pages 55-73

6. Deliberative Democracy in an Urban Elementary Science Classroom

   • Bhaskar Upadhyay, Nancy Albrecht

   Pages 75-87

7. Teaching for Democratic Reconstruction

   • Gale Seiler

   Pages 89-101

8. Citizenship and the Three C’s

   • Christopher Emdin

   Pages 103-114

9. Why Democratic Science Teaching Matters

   • Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan

   Pages 115-120

10. Back Matter

    Pages 121-127

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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.

• New York University, New York, USA

  Sreyashi Jhumki Basu

• Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  Angela Calabrese Barton

• University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

  Edna Tan

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