Science Education from People for People: Taking a Stand(point)

Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the lives of real people, this book takes up the challenge of building an approach to science education from the standpoint of the learner. With this orientation to science and scientific literacy, science educators can begin to make inroads into the currently widespread irrelevance of science in the everyday lives of people.

Science Education and Institutional Ethnography: An Introduction. Wolff-Michael RothPART A: CULTURING KNOWLEDGES1. Particularities in relation to Western Science: Authenticity derived from the Life Spaces of an Elderly and a Young Adult African American Female. Eileen Parsons2. Faith in a Seed: Social Memory, Local Knowledge, and Scientific Practice. Carol B. Brandt3. Language and Experience of the Self in Science and Transnational Migration. SungWon Hwang, Miho Matsuda, & Wolff-Michael Roth4. Reality pedagogy: Hip Hop culture and the Urban Science Classroom. Chris Emdin5. Sister City, Sister Science: Science Education for Sustainable Rural Living in the New Borderlands. Katherine Richardson Bruna6. Metalogue: Culturing Knowledges-Lessons for Science Education. Carol B. Brandt, Katherine Richardson Bruna, SungWon Hwang, Miho Matsuda, Eileen Parsons, Wolff-Michael RothPART B: OTHERING THE SELF, SELFING THE OTHER7. Crafting new forms of community knowledge about having babies. Angela Barton Calabrese8. Scientific Literacy Through the Lens of (Chronical) Illness. Wolff-Michael Roth9. Teacher as Knower and Learner Revisited: Situated Knowledge in the Era of No Child Left Behind. Margery Osborne10. Engineering Expertise in Engineering Education: A Stranger in a "Real" Land. Karen Tonso11. Metalogue: Othering the Self, Selfing the OtherAngela Barton Calabrese, Margery Osborne, Wolff-Michael Roth, Karen Tonso (alphabetical order)