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Oral Traditions, Changing Rural Landscapes, and Science Education
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Stapleton, Sarah Riggs – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
This forum response extends the argument made by Avery and Hains that oral traditions can be useful for including the cultures and contexts of rural areas within science instruction. To buttress the oral expressions presented in Avery and Hains, I compare oral expressions of a second rural area, 600 miles to the South, in Eastern North Carolina. I…
Descriptors: Oral Tradition, Rural Areas, Science Instruction, Social Change
Oral Traditions: A Contextual Framework for Complex Science Concepts--Laying the Foundation for a Paradigm of Promise in Rural Science Education
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Avery, Leanne M.; Hains, Bryan J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
The overarching goal of this paper is to bring a diverse educational context--rural sayings and oral traditions situated in ecological habitats--to light and emphasize that they need to be taken into consideration regarding twenty-first century science education. The rural sayings or tenets presented here are also considered alternative ways of…
Descriptors: Oral Tradition, Rural Education, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
Rural Science Education as Social Justice
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Eppley, Karen – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
What part can science education play in the dismantling of obstacles to social justice in rural places? In this Forum contribution, I use "Learning in and about Rural Places: Connections and Tensions Between Students' Everyday Experiences and Environmental Quality Issues in their Community" (Zimmerman and Weible 2016) to explicitly…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Science Education, Social Justice, Environmental Education