Science Education from People for People: Taking a Stand(point)

ISBN 10: 041599554X / ISBN 13: 9780415995542

Published by Routledge, 2009

About this Item

Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the lives of real people, this book takes up the challenge of building an approach to science education from the standpoint of the learner. Editor(s): Roth, Wolff-Michael. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JNU; YQS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2009. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science Education from People for People: Taking a Stand(point)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041599554X
• ISBN 13: 9780415995542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book

• introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns within or outside school;
• develops a new form of scholarship based on the dialogic nature of science as process and product; and
• achieves these two objectives in a readable but scholarly way.

Opposing the tendency to teach and do research as if science, science education, and scientific literacy could be imposed from the outside, the authors want science education to be for people rather than strictly about how knowledge gets into their heads. Taking up the challenges of this orientation, science educators can begin to make inroads into the currently widespread irrelevance of science in the everyday lives of people. Utmost attention has been given to making this book readable by the people from whose lives the topics of the chapters emerge, all the while retaining academic integrity and high-level scholarship.

Wolff Michael Roth has been awarded the Distinguished Contributions Award by The National Association for Research in Science Teaching, for his contributions to research in this field.

He has also been elected to be the Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

About the Author

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Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria, Canada.

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