ERIC Number: EJ1358097
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Dec
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ISSN: ISSN-1871-1502
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Forwarding a 'Science-Ethics Nexus' to Critique and Reorient Science Education Pedagogy toward Greater Social and Ecological Justice
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v17 n4 p1039-1046 Dec 2022
In this paper, I engage with arguments put forth by Blue Mahy in his article "A speculative-posthumanist examination of the 'science-ethics nexus' in Australian secondary schools." Mahy argues that by using relational posthumanist concepts as a diffractive lens, his critiques of Australian school science standards find the underlying hegemonies of masculine, Euro-Western ideologies that infuse the stance on ethics in science education. He uses a 'plug in process' of posthumanist concepts to generate a 'speculative fiction'. This is a method used to reclaim ethics and science by creating narratives produced by the diffracted projections of posthumanist concepts. In my own research on science teacher education, I explore Mahy's use of diffraction for both critiquing science curriculum and providing projections for future ethical commitments in school science education. I utilize data from my science methods course which is situated in Central California's agricultural region at a largely Hispanic-Serving Institution.
Descriptors: Science Education, Social Justice, Secondary School Science, Standards, Masculinity, Ideology, Ethics, Science Teachers, Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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