ERIC Number: EJ1359104
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Publication Date: 2022-Dec
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Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the "Black" Box and Making It Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education
Waight, Noemi; Kayumova, Shakhnoza; Tripp, Jennifer; Achilova, Feyza
Science & Education, v31 n6 p1493-1515 Dec 2022
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in the rapid emergence of vaccines, the dual benefits of both science and technology have been lauded, while dominant, deficit-based narratives of vaccine hesitancy and mistrust in science and medicine by the general public, particularly minoritized populations, run rampant. In this paper, we argue for a counternarrative, where instead of erroneously positioning communities of color as the problem, the problem is reframed to consider what the scientific, technological, and science education communities need to do to become more trustworthy and transgress the persistent shortcomings related to racism and injustice. Specifically, in this position paper, we (a) discuss the interactions of science, technology, and society from the perspective of the nature of technology; (b) engage an understanding of how bias, access, and racism operate in and at the intersection of science, technology, and technological systems; (c) discuss implications of these ideas in science education; and finally (d) pose recommendations to counter alienation and racism with an emphasis on a sixth dimension, equitable, social justice criticality, for science-technology education. In conclusion, we make recommendations by centering a more "equitable, social justice criticality" of science and technology.
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Justice, Science Education, Futures (of Society), Science and Society, Trust (Psychology)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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