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Critical Voices in Science Education Research

Narratives of Hope and Struggle

  • Connects new researchers to a given field of research
  • Contains transferable contexts to assist other scholars around the world
  • Reflects the growing diversity of science education researchers around the world
  • Reflects exciting new directions in science education research as forged by new scholars

Part of the book series: Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE, volume 17)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Critical Reflections: Stories of Struggle & Hope

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Critical Voices in Science Education

      • Jesse Bazzul, Christina Siry
      Pages 3-7
    3. Finding a Critical Voice

      • Aswathy Raveendran
      Pages 27-36
    4. Stories of Hope

      • Ralph Levinson
      Pages 37-45
    5. Reflections on Undergraduate Science Experiences: A Push to Science Teaching

      • David Segura, Olayinka Mohorn-Mintah
      Pages 47-58
    6. Embedding Ethics of Care into Primary Science Pedagogy: Reflections on Our Criticality

      • Lyn Carter, Carolina Castano Rodriguez, Jenny Martin
      Pages 59-71
    7. Confronting Self: Stories of Incipiency, Disequilibrium, and Becoming Critical in Science Education

      • Darren Hoeg, Larry Bencze, Sarah El Halwany, Erin Sperling, Majd Zouda
      Pages 127-139
  3. Science Education, Politics and Resistance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

About this book

This book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and/or science teacher educator, with the hope that through solidarity, commonality, and “telling the story”, justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys. Being a scholar and teacher that sees science education as a space for justice, and thinking/being different, entry into this disciplinary field often comes with tense moments and personal difficulties.

The chapter authors of this book break into many painful, awkward, and seemingly nebulous topics, including the intersectional nuances of what it means to be a researcher in the contexts of epistemic rigidness, white supremacy, and neoliberal restructuring. Of course these contexts become different depending on how teachers, students, and researchers are constituted within them (as racialized/sexed/gendered/disposable/valued subjects). We hope that within these narratives readers will identify with similar struggles in terms of what it means to desire to “do good in the world”, while facing subtle and not-so-subtle institutional, personal cultural, and political challenges.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Regina, Regina, Canada

    Jesse Bazzul

  • Institute of Applied Educational Sciences, The University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Christina Siry

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Voices in Science Education Research

  • Book Subtitle: Narratives of Hope and Struggle

  • Editors: Jesse Bazzul, Christina Siry

  • Series Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99990-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99989-0Published: 05 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99990-6Published: 23 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 1879-7229

  • Series E-ISSN: 1879-7237

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 274

  • Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction

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eBook USD 119.00
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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