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Activist Science and Technology Education (Cultural Studies of Science Education Book 9) by Larry Bencze, Steve Alsop (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This collection examines issues of agency, power, politics and identity as they relate to science and technology and education, within contemporary settings. Social, economic and ecological critique and reform are examined by numerous contributing authors, from a range of international contexts. These chapters examine pressing pedagogical questions within socio-scientific contexts, including petroleum economies, food justice, health, environmentalism, climate change, social media and biotechnologies. Readers will discover far reaching inquiries into activism as an open question for science and technology education, citizenship and democracy. The authors call on the work of prominent scholars throughout the ages, including Bourdieu, Foucault, Giroux, Jasanoff, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Rancière and Žižek. The application of critical theoretical scholarship to mainstream practices in science and technology education distinguishes this book, and this deep, theoretical treatment is complemented by many grounded, more pragmatic exemplars of activist pedagogies. Practical examples are set within the public sphere, within selected new social movements, and also within more formal inst
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Larry Bencze, Steve Alsop (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789400743601
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Science
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