ISBN:
0203463919
,
9780203463918
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 227 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking scientific literacy
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Science Study and teaching
;
Science Social aspects
;
SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects
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Science ; Social aspects
;
Science ; Study and teaching
;
Bildung
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Gesellschaft
;
Wissenschaft
;
Natuurwetenschappen
;
Onderwijs
;
Pedagogische aspecten
;
Electronic books
;
Bildung
;
Wissenschaft
;
Gesellschaft
;
Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
;
Allgemeinbildung
Abstract:
This book presents a new and entirely different perspective on scientific literacy in that it valorizes the capacities of human beings to participate in worldly affairs and to change their life contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Introduction; Science as Collective Praxis, Literacy, Power, and Struggle for a Better World; Scientific Literacy as Emergent Feature of Collective Praxis; Scientific Literacy, Hegemony, and Struggle; Politics, Power, and Science in Inner-City Communities; Margin and Center; Constructing Scientific Dis/Ability; Science Education as and for Citizen Science; Dangerous Teaching: Using Science as Tool and Context to Work for Social Justice; Notes; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index. - Print version record
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