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Schenkel, Kathleen; Calabrese Barton, Angela – Science Education, 2020
Promoting critical science agency (CSA) may be one way to promote educational justice. CSA is using science with other powerful forms of knowledge to address issues of injustice. However, the process of enacting CSA is always embedded within a sociopolitical context, which positions some students with more power than others. Drawing upon a social…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
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Birmingham, Daniel; Calabrese Barton, Angela; McDaniel, Autumn; Jones, Jalah; Turner, Camryn; Rogers, Angel – Science Education, 2017
In this paper, we use the concept of "consequential learning" to frame our exploration of what makes learning and doing science matter for youth from nondominant communities, as well as the barriers these youth must confront in working toward consequential ends. Data are derived from multimodal cases authored by four females from…
Descriptors: Learning, Youth, Barriers, Middle School Students
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Lee, Stuart – Science Education, 2004
In this paper, we take up and advance the project of rethinking "scientific literacy" by Eisenhart, Finkel, and Marion (American Educational Research Journal, 1996, 33, 261-295). As part of a project of rethinking science education, we advance three propositions. First, because society is built on division of labor, not everybody needs to know the…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Scientific Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Ethnography