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Science History

Critical Voices in Science Education Research

Narratives of Hope and Struggle

by (author) Jesse Bazzul

edited by Christina Siry

Publisher
Springer Nature
Initial publish date
Feb 2019
Category
History, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9783319999890
    Publish Date
    Feb 2019
    List Price
    $233.95

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This book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and/or science teacher educator, with the hope that through solidarity, commonality, and "telling the story", justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys. Being a scholar and teacher that sees science education as a space for justice, and thinking/being different, entry into this disciplinary field often comes with tense moments and personal difficulties.

The chapter authors of this book break into many painful, awkward, and seemingly nebulous topics, including the intersectional nuances of what it means to be a researcher in the contexts of epistemic rigidness, white supremacy, and neoliberal restructuring. Of course these contexts become different depending on how teachers, students, and researchers are constituted within them (as racialized/sexed/gendered/disposable/valued subjects). We hope that within these narratives readers will identify with similar struggles in terms of what it means to desire to "do good in the world", while facing subtle and not-so-subtle institutional, personal cultural, and political challenges.

 

About the authors

Jesse Bazzul is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.

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