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Teaching Science for Social Justice

by: Barton, Angela Calabrese; Ermer, Jason L.; Burkett, Tanahia A.; Osborne, Margery D.

Teaching Science for Social Justice

by: Barton, Angela Calabrese; Ermer, Jason L.; Burkett, Tanahia A.; Osborne, Margery D.

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9780807743836
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Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/01/2003
Publisher: Teachers College Pr

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Summary

Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume; provides valuable insight to help teachers work with inner-city youth; explores the importance of inclusiveness, membership rules, and the purposes and goals of good science; and shows how science connects to the lives of youth both in and out of school.

Acknowledgments

1. Overview: Youth Lives and Youth Science

(18)

The Tunnel

(5)

Why Use Youth Stories to Make a Case for Urban Science Education?

(4)

Learning in Context

(6)

Looking Ahead: The Stories in This Text

(3)

2. Learning with Urban Youth

(27)

The Contradictions of Doing Science in and out of School: Kobe's Story

(4)

Science for All: The Issues That Divide

(11)

A Practice of Science in Urban Settings

(8)

Applying a Practice of Science Perspective to Our Work with Urban Youth

(1)

Looking Ahead

(3)

3. Living in the Borderland

(20)

Introduction: Worlds Apart

(2)

Living Within the Margins

(2)

Margin-Center Separation: Claudia's and Juan's Stories

(1)

Claudia

(6)

Juan

(4)

Using the Margins for Strength

(3)

Looking Ahead

(2)

4. Power and Co-opting Science Spaces

(27)

Power and Co-opting Science Spaces

(1)

Power and Resistance

(3)

Power and Science Education

(1)

Junior

(5)

Iris

(4)

Disrupting Power Through Science

(7)

Co-opting Science Spaces

(3)

Looking Ahead

(2)

5. Relevant Science: Activating Resources in Nonstandard Ways

(27)

The Beginnings of a Picnic Table

(4)

Relevant Science

(1)

Ruben and the Picnic Table

(5)

Relevant Science and the Picnic Table

103

(1)

New Forms of Expert Knowledge, Skills, and Capabilities

104

(9)

Authorship as a Community Practice

113

(3)

Relevant Science

116

(2)

Looking Ahead

118

(2)

6. Transformations: Science as a Tool for Change

120

(18)

Getting to Know Darkside

120

(6)

Darkside and the Community Garden

126

(1)

Transformations

127

(8)

Looking Ahead

135

(3)

7. Building Communities in Support of Youth's Science Practices

138

(20)

Community and Science Among Homeless Youth

139

(5)

Building Science Communities in Support of Youth Lives and Practices of Science

144

(9)

Community, Science Education, and Urban Youth

153

(3)

Looking Ahead

156

(2)

8. Empowering Science Education and Youth's Practices of Science

158

(13)

Building a Socially Just World

158

(2)

Looking Across the Themes That Frame Youth's Practices of Science

160

(2)

Questioning the Future

162

(5)

Looking Ahead: Why Science Education?

167

(4)

Appendix A: Data on Target Children

171

(2)

Appendix B: Child Study Framework

173

(4)

Notes

177

(2)

References

179

(8)

Index

187

(10)

About the Authors

197

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Teaching Science for Social Justice

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