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Young Black Children and Science: Chronotopes of Narratives around Their Science Journals
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Varelas, Maria; Kane, Justine M.; Wylie, Caitlin D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
We explored 30 Black Kindergarten-2nd grade students' spoken narratives around pages of their science journals that the children selected as best for showing them as scientists. Because in all narratives, space-time relationships play an important role not only in situating but also in constituting them, we focused on such relationships using…
Descriptors: African American Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Young African American Children's Representations of Self, Science, and School: Making Sense of Difference
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Varelas, Maria; Kane, Justine M.; Wylie, Caitlin Donahue – Science Education, 2011
We focused on young, low-income, African American children in first- to third-grade classrooms where they experienced varied forms of interactive, participatory, and dialogic pedagogy in the context of yearlong, integrated science-literacy instruction. Using conversations that started around children's own science journals, which were an important…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Classrooms, Literacy