Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2

Sara Tolbert

ISBN 10: 303135432X / ISBN 13: 9783031354328

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this contemporary geologic time. This work continues the mission of transforming the ways communities inherit science and technology education: its knowledges, practices, policies, and ways-of-living-with-Nature. Our understanding of the Anthropocene is necessarily open and pluralistic, as different beings on our planet experience this time of crisis in different ways. This second volume continues to nurture productive relationships between science education and fields such as science studies, environmental studies, philosophy, the natural sciences, Indigenous studies, and critical theory in orderto provoke a science education that actively seeks to remake our shared ecological and social spaces in the coming decades and centuries.This is an open access book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303135432X
• ISBN 13: 9783031354328
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 24D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 570 grams

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Synopsis

This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this contemporary geologic time. This work continues the mission of transforming the ways communities inherit science and technology education: its knowledges, practices, policies, and ways-of-living-with-Nature. Our understanding of the Anthropocene is necessarily open and pluralistic, as different beings on our planet experience this time of crisis in different ways. This second volume continues to nurture productive relationships between science education and fields such as science studies, environmental studies, philosophy, the natural sciences, Indigenous studies, and critical theory in orderto provoke a science education that actively seeks to remake our shared ecological and social spaces in the coming decades and centuries. 

This is an open access book.

About the Author

Sara Tolbert is Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Maria F.G. Wallace is Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Center for STEM Education at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.

Marc Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he is affiliated with the Faculty of Education’s Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP).

Jesse Bazzul is Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Regina, Canada.