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Encouraging Citizenship in Science Education: Continuing Questions and Hopeful Possibilities

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This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education invokes questions intended to further the discourse of citizenship in science and mathe¬matics education, such as, How do we define citizen and democracy? Is our call for student action hypocritical? Does positioning school science through the work of Rancière present a “straw man” argument for change? To what extent does the ghost of John Dewey animate and inform a “wild pedagogy” in science education? Challenging the view of the science and mathematics curriculum as a barrier to overcome, this article argues that possibilities for developing citizenship and critical thinking can be found and developed in existing curriculum formations and practices of school science and mathematics education.

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Ce numéro spécial de la Revue canadienne de l’enseignement des sciences, des mathématiques et des technologies traite de questions visant à poursuivre le discours sur la citoyen¬neté dans le domaine de l’enseignement des sciences et des mathématiques, par exemple: Comment définit-on les mots «citoyen» et «démocratie»? Notre appel à l’action étudiante est-il hypocrite? Le fait de situer les sciences à l’école par rapport aux travaux de Rancière est-il un «argument épouvantail» visant à favoriser un certain changement? Jusqu’à quel point le fantôme de John Dewey alimente-t-il une idée de «pédagogie sauvage» en enseignement des sciences? Défiant l’idée qui veut que le curriculum de sciences et de mathématiques constitue une barrière à abattre, cet article soutient qu’on peut promouvoir la citoyenneté et la pensée critique dans le cadre des curriculums actuels et des pratiques courantes en enseignement des sciences et des mathématiques à l’école.

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Blades, D. Encouraging Citizenship in Science Education: Continuing Questions and Hopeful Possibilities. Can J Sci Math Techn 15, 216–220 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1080/14926156.2015.1070933

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