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Feminist science education [electronic resource] / Angela Calabrese Barton.

By: Barton, Angela Calabrese.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Athene series: Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, c1998General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 156 p.) : ill.ISBN: 0585255407 (electronic bk.); 9780585255408 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Barton, Angela Calabrese | Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States | Feminism and education -- United States | Science teachers -- United States -- Biography | Women college teachers -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 507/.1/1073 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
Contents:
1. Feminist Liberatory Science Education? -- 2. Positionality and the Politics of Feminist Teacher Research -- 3. Positioning Science Through Oral Histories -- 4. Learning About Ourselves Inside of Science, Outside of Science -- 5. Centering Lived Experience -- 6. Revisioning Science Through Lived Experience -- 7. Repositioning the Discourses: Framing a Science for All.
Summary: This volume presents a case for liberatory science education from a feminist perspective. Based on a two-year teacher-research study, Feminist Science Education questions and challenges how power and knowledge relationships position teachers, students, and science with and against one another in the classroom. Using stories about life in and out of the classroom, this book describes the impact that exploring this situated nature of science and teaching has for transforming science education.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

1. Feminist Liberatory Science Education? -- 2. Positionality and the Politics of Feminist Teacher Research -- 3. Positioning Science Through Oral Histories -- 4. Learning About Ourselves Inside of Science, Outside of Science -- 5. Centering Lived Experience -- 6. Revisioning Science Through Lived Experience -- 7. Repositioning the Discourses: Framing a Science for All.

This volume presents a case for liberatory science education from a feminist perspective. Based on a two-year teacher-research study, Feminist Science Education questions and challenges how power and knowledge relationships position teachers, students, and science with and against one another in the classroom. Using stories about life in and out of the classroom, this book describes the impact that exploring this situated nature of science and teaching has for transforming science education.

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