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Makes the case for curriculum studies scholars to consider science matters
Demonstrates the ways science matters and curriculum studies intersect
Shows how science is a necessary component for a vibrant democracy
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education (CSOE, volume 8)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Part V
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About this book
In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the history of rhetoric and economics then on the rhetoric of models, statistics, and data, a critique of neoliberalism and its impact on science policy and the foundations of democracy, Harry Collin’s and Robert Evans’ theory of expertise followed by chapters on feminism with a focus on the work of Sharon Traweek, Karen Barad, and Vinciane Despret, postcolonial thought, with attention paid to the work of Daniela Bleichmar, Londa Schiebinger, Judith Carney, Sylvia Wynter, Paul Gilroy, and Sandra Harding, and a final chapter on Nietzsche’s philosophy of science. Each section is introduced by an interlude drawing on autobiographical connections between curriculum studies and science studies.
Keywords
- curriculum studies
- involvement in science
- curriculum theory
- Neoliberal thought
- loss of democracy
- postcolonial thought
- postcolonial science
- cultures of no culture
- extreme culture of objectivity
- science in action
- Nietzsche’s Science
- reunite curriculum studies with the sciences
- narcissistic proclamations
- Rhetoric of science
- sociology of expertise
- feminist science
- Nietzschean philosophy
- Homo Economicus
- science and democracy
Authors and Affiliations
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Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA
John A. Weaver
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies
Authors: John A. Weaver
Series Title: Critical Studies of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93840-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93839-4Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06729-8Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93840-0Published: 30 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2543-0467
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 198
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Curriculum Studies, International and Comparative Education