Improving Urban Science Education New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers

, by Tobin, Kenneth; Elmesky, Rowhea; Seiler, Gale; Beers, Jennifer; Butler, Lacie; Carambo, Cristobal; LaVan, Sarah-Kate; Loman, Linda; Martin, Sonya; Milne, Catherine; Olitsky, Stacy; Otieno, Tracey; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Scantlebury, Kathryn; Sterba, Melissa

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ISBN: 9780742537057 | 0742537056
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/31/2005

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Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes.

Foreword

vii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

xix

Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler

1 The Who, What, Where, and How of Our Urban Ethnographic Research

(20)

Gale Seiler and Rowhea Elmesky

2 Urban Science as a Culturally and Socially Adaptive Practice

(22)

Kenneth Tobin

3 Painting the Landscape: Urban Schools and Urban Classrooms

(22)

Gale Seiler and Lacie Butler

4 Organizational Mediation of Urban Science

(24)

Wolff-Michael Roth

5 Playin on the Streets-Solidarity in the Classroom: Weak Cultural Boundaries and the Implications for Urban Science Education

(24)

Rowhea Elmesky

6 All My Life I Been Po': Oral Fluency as a Resource for Science Teaching and Learning

113

(18)

Gale Seiler

7 Becoming an Urban Science Teacher: The First Three Years

131

(16)

Jennifer Beers

8 The Role of Cogenerative Dialogue in Learning to Teach and Transforming Learning Environments

147

(18)

Sarah-Kate La Van and Jennifer Beers

9 Learning Science and the Centrality of Student Participation

165

(16)

Cristobal Carambo

10 Female Sexuality as Agency and Oppression in Urban Science Classrooms

181

(16)

Melissa Sterba

11 Meeting the Needs and Adapting to the Capital of a Queen Mother and an Ol' Head: Gender Equity in Urban High School Science

197

(10)

Kathryn Scantlebury

12 Paperclips + Polymers -> Problems: Learning to Use Levels of Representation in a High School Chemistry Classroom

207

(18)

Tracey Otieno and Catherine Milne

13 An Autobiographical Approach to Becoming a Science Teacher in an Urban High School

225

(20)

Sonya N. Martin

14 Beyond Either-Or: Reconsidering Resources in Terms of Structures

245

(16)

Sarah-Kate La Van

15 My Cultural Awakening in the Classroom

261

(18)

Linda Loman

16 Social and Cultural Capital in Science Teaching: Relating Practice and Reflection

279

(20)

Stacy Olitsky

17 Transforming the Future while Learning from the Past

299

(22)

Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler

References

321

(8)

About the Contributors

329

(4)

Index

333

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Improving Urban Science Education New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers

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