Overview
- Offers critical perspectives on social-cultural-political issues in science education
- Science education research set in the Nordic context
- Explores how political ideologies and market driven forces shape science education
- Addresses challenges for students to identify themselves with school science
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE, volume 15)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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About this book
This book presents a collection of critical thinking that concern cultural, social and political issues for science education in the Nordic countries. The chapter authors describe specific scenarios to challenge persisting views, interrogate frameworks and trouble contemporary approaches to researching teaching and learning in science. Taking a point of departure in empirical examples from the Nordic countries the collection of work is taking a critical sideways glance at the Nordic education principles. Critical examinations target specifically those who are researching in the fields of science education research to question whether conventional research approaches, foci and theoretical approaches are sufficient in a world of science education that is neither politically neutral, nor free of cultural values. Attention is not only on the individual learner but on the cultural, social and political conditions and contexts in science education. The different chapters review debates and research in teacher education, school teaching and learning including when external stakeholders are involved. Even though the chapters are contextualized in Nordic settings there will be similarities and parallels that will be informative to the international science education research community.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives in Science Education
Book Subtitle: A Nordic View
Editors: Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Martin Krabbe Sillasen, Auli Arvola Orlander
Series Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61191-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61190-7Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87023-6Published: 11 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61191-4Published: 20 October 2017
Series ISSN: 1879-7229
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7237
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education