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100 Years of Gratitude: What I Learned from Freire
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Steinberg, Shirley R. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
Learning from Freire can be a live-long endeavor, always adding humor, rigorous critical theory, and narrative. This article addresses the theoretical and cognitive ways in which Freire can be embraced. Moving far beyond banking education and fixed ideological notions of Freire's work, it is important to consider the tentative when reading and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Criticism, Power Structure, Educational Philosophy
Soul Searching in Science Teaching: An Exploration of Critical Teaching Events through the Lens of Intersectionality
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Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
This longitudinal case study utilizes critical event narrative methodology and intersectionality to examine the experiences of one female Caribbean teacher as she sought to enact her vision of socially just science education in secondary schools in the USA. This research explored how the convergence of racial, cultural, and science teaching…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Critical Theory, Intersectionality, Foreign Countries
Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Discourses in Science Education Scholarship from the Perspective of Post-Critical Curricular Theories
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Rezende, Flavia; Ostermann, Fernanda – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
Although in-depth educational reviews can be carried out building on curricular theories, the appropriation of this knowledge by science education scholarship can still be considered timid. In this paper, our intention is to work on this interface; we first introduce basic concepts from the main curricular frameworks and bring possible…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scholarship, Discourse Analysis, Critical Theory
Toward the Sociopolitical in Science Education
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Tolbert, Sara; Bazzul, Jesse – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
In this paper, we explore how Jacques Rancière's ("The ignorant schoolmaster: five lessons in intellectual emancipation". Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1991) notions of radical equality and dissensus reveal horizons for activism and sociopolitical engagement in science education theory, research, and practice. Drawing on Rochelle…
Descriptors: Science Education, Equal Education, Politics of Education, Activism
Playful and Mindful Interactions in the Recursive Adaptations of the Zone of Proximal Development: A Critical Complexity Science Approach
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Raia, Federica; Deng, Mario C. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
We discuss Konstantinos Alexakos, Jayson Jones and Victor Rodriguez's hermeneutic study of formation and function of kinship-like relationships among inner city male students of color in a college physics classroom. From our Critical Complexity Science framework we first discuss the reading "erlebnisse" of students laughing at and with each other…
Descriptors: Physics, Urban Areas, Males, Family Relationship
From Object to Subject: Hybrid Identities of Indigenous Women in Science
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McKinley, Elizabeth – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
The use of hybridity today suggests a less coherent, unified and directed process than that found in the Enlightenment science's cultural imperialism, but regardless of this neither concept exists outside power and inequality. Hence, hybridity raises the question of the terms of the mixture and the conditions of mixing. Cultural hybridity produced…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Women Scientists, Foreign Countries, Science Education