Science Education for Diversity Theory and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mansour, Nasser. (Editor), Wegerif, Rupert. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 8
• Subjects: Education.; Science > Study and teaching.; Religion and education.; Science Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Sociology of Education.; Religion and Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4563-6

Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as wel...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Why science education for diversity? Nasser Mansour and Rupert Wegerif
• Part 1. Science education reform for diversity
• Chapter 1: Dialogic Science Education for Diversity, Rupert Wegerif, Keith Postlethwaite, Nigel Skinner, Nasser Mansour, Alun Morgan, Lindsay Hetherington
• Chapter2: Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Re-conceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society, Xiufeng Liu
• Chapter3: Activity, Subjectification, and Personality: Science Education from a Diversity-of-Life Perspective, Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria
• Chapter 4: Reflexivity and diversity in research on science education: A European account, Michiel van Eijck
• Part 2, from learning to pedagogy
• Chapter 5: Science education for diversity and informal learning, Loran E. Parker and Gerald H. Krockover
• Chapter 6: Diverse, disengaged and reactive: A teacher<U+0019>s adaptation of ethical dilemma story pedagogy as a strategy to re-engage learners in education for sustainability, Elisabeth Taylor, Peter Charles Taylor and MeiLing Chow
• Chapter 7: Tracing science in the early childhood classroom: the historicity of multi-resourced discourse practices in multilingual interaction, Charles Max, Gudrun Ziegler and Martin Kracheel
• Chapter 8: Conceptual frameworks, metaphysical commitments and worldviews: the challenge of reflecting the relationships between science and religion in science education, Keith S. Taber
• Chapter 9: Science Curriculum Reform on <U+001c>Scientific Literacy for All across National Contexts: Case Studies of Curricula from England and Hong Kong, Sibel Erduran and Siu Ling Wong
• Part 3 science teacher Education and diversity
• Chapter 10: Science teachers' cultural beliefs and diversities: A sociocultural perspective to science education, Nasser Mansour
• Chapter 11: Envisioning Science Teacher Preparation for Diversity in 21st Century Classrooms: Some Tensions, Norm Thomson, Deborah J. Tippins
• Chapter12: Expanded agency in multilingual science teacher training classrooms, Silvia Lizette Ramos De Robles & Mariona Espinet
• Part 4 Cultural issues in science Education
• Chapter 13: Re-conceptualizing a lifelong science education system that supports diversity: The role of free-choice learning, Lynn D. Dierking
• Chapter 14: Ignoring half the Sky: A feminist critique of science education<U+0019>s knowledge society, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anita Hussňius, Kristina Andersson and Annica Gullberg
• Chapter 15: Religion in Science Education, Michael J. Reiss
• Chapter 16: Students<U+0019> perceptions of apparent contradictions between science and religion: Creation is only the beginning, Berry Billingsley
• Chapter 17: Gender and science in the Arab states: Current status and future prospects, Saouma BouJaoude & Ghada Gholam.