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Democratic Science Teaching: Building the Expertise to Empower Low-Income Minority Youth in Science

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Editors:
  1. Sreyashi Jhumki Basu

    1. New York University, New York, USA

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  2. Angela Calabrese Barton

    1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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  3. Edna Tan

    1. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

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

Part of the book series: Cultural Perspectives in Science Education (CHPS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Angela Calabrese Barton, Jhumki Basu, Verneda Johnson, Edna Tan
    Pages 1-20

  3. Youth Voices

    • Jhumki Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton, Neile Clairmont, Donya Locke
    Pages 21-40

  4. Improvisation With/in Science

    • Tara O’Neill
    Pages 41-54

  5. Participating in and Transforming Communities of Practice

    • Hayat Alhoyokem, Angela Calabrese Barton, Donya Locke
    Pages 55-73

  6. Deliberative Democracy in an Urban Elementary Science Classroom

    • Bhaskar Upadhyay, Nancy Albrecht
    Pages 75-87

  7. Teaching for Democratic Reconstruction

    • Gale Seiler
    Pages 89-101

  8. Citizenship and the Three C’s

    • Christopher Emdin
    Pages 103-114

  9. Why Democratic Science Teaching Matters

    • Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan
    Pages 115-120

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 121-127
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About this book

Democratic science pedagogy has the potential to shape learning outcomes and science engagement by taking on directly issues of pedagogy, learning, and social justice. In this text we provide a framework for democratic science teaching in order to interrogate the purposes and goals of science education in classrooms globally, as well as to call attention to ways of being in the classroom that position teachers and students as important and powerful participants in their own learning and as change-agents of a larger global society. We develop three core conceptual tools for democratic science teaching, that together frame ways of thinking and being in classrooms that work towards a more just world: Voice, Authority, and Critical Science Literacy. Each conceptual tool is developed in the introductory chapters then taken up in different pedagogical and analytic ways in the chapters that span the text. The chapters present researcher, teacher, and student centered lenses for investigating democratic science education and reflect elementary through high school education, both in school and out of school, in the US and globally.

Editors and Affiliations

  • New York University, New York, USA

    Sreyashi Jhumki Basu

  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Angela Calabrese Barton

  • University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

    Edna Tan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Democratic Science Teaching: Building the Expertise to Empower Low-Income Minority Youth in Science

  • Editors: Sreyashi Jhumki Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan

  • Series Title: Cultural Perspectives in Science Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-370-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

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

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-370-9Published: 12 November 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 127

  • Topics: Science Education

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