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Identity Construction and Science Education Research

Learning, Teaching, and Being in Multiple Contexts

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Editors:
  1. Maria Varelas

    1. University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research (BVER, volume 35)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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    1. Introduction

      • Maria Varelas
      Pages 1-6

  3. K-12 Science Learners In and Out of Schools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Methodological Considerations for Studying Identities in School Science

      • Heidi B. Carlone
      Pages 9-25

    3. Multiple Identities and the Science self

      • Justine M. Kane
      Pages 27-42

    4. Kay’s coat of many Colors

      • Juanita Bautista Guerra, Angela Calabrese Barton, Caitlin Brecklin, Edna Tan, Hosun Kang
      Pages 43-60

    5. “To Understand the news you need Science!” Girls’ Positioning and Subjectivity in and Beyond a Newsletter Activity in an Afterschool Science Program

      • Jrène Rahm, Allison Gonsalves
      Pages 61-78

    6. Young Children’s Multimodal Identity Stories about Being Scientists

      • Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria Varelas, Christine C. Pappas, Neveen Keblawe-Shamah
      Pages 79-95

    7. Meanings of Success in Science

      • Nancy Brickhouse
      Pages 97-101
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About this book

In this edited volume, science education scholars engage with the constructs of identity and identity construction of learners, teachers, and practitioners of science. Reports on empirical studies and commentaries serve to extend theoretical understandings related to identity and identity development vis-à-vis science education, link them to empirical evidence derived from a range of participants, educational settings, and analytic foci, examine methodological issues in identity studies, and project fruitful directions for research in this area. Using anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural perspectives, chapter authors depict and discuss the complexity, messiness, but also potential of identity work in science education, and show how critical constructs–such as power, privilege, and dominant views; access and participation; positionality; agency-structure dialectic; and inequities–are integrally intertwined with identity construction and trajectories. Chapter authors examine issues of identity with participants ranging from first graders to pre-service and in-service teachers, to physics doctoral students, to show ways in which identity work is a vital (albeit still underemphasized) dimension of learning and participating in science in, and out of, academic institutions. Moreover, the research presented in this book mostly concerns students or teachers with racial, ethno-linguistic, class, academic status, and gender affiliations that have been long excluded from, or underrepresented in, scientific practice, science fields, and science-related professions, and linked with science achievement gaps. This book contributes to the growing scholarship that seeks to problematize various dominant views regarding, for example, what counts as science and scientific competence, who does science, and what resources can be fruitful for doing science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

    Maria Varelas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Identity Construction and Science Education Research

  • Book Subtitle: Learning, Teaching, and Being in Multiple Contexts

  • Editors: Maria Varelas

  • Series Title: Bold Visions in Educational Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-043-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-043-9Published: 17 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 196

  • Topics: Education, general

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