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Dreaming and immanence: rejecting the dogmatic image of thought in science education

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In this article, we, a multivocal-thinking-assemblage, trouble what we feel is the dogmatic image of thought in science education. Beginning with Lars Bang’s (Cult Stud Sci Educ, 2017) dramatic and disruptive imagery of the Ouroboros as a means to challenge scientific literacy we explore the importance of dreams, thinking with both virtual and actual entities, and immanent thinking to science education scholarship. Dreaming as movement away from a dogmatic image of thought takes the authors in multiple directions as they attempt to open Deleuzian horizons of difference, immanence, and self-exploration.

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  1. University of Regina, Regina, Canada

    Jesse Bazzul

  2. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Maria F. G. Wallace

  3. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Marc Higgins

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This is a review paper of Lars Bang (2017) In the maw of the Ouroboros – an analysis of scientific literacy and democracy. Cultural Studies of Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-017-9808-2.

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Bazzul, J., Wallace, M.F.G. & Higgins, M. Dreaming and immanence: rejecting the dogmatic image of thought in science education. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 13, 823–835 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-017-9816-2

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