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Informationen zum Autor _____________________________________________________________________________ Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. _____________________________________________________________________________ Zusammenfassung Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the lives of real people, this book takes up the challenge of building an approach to science education from the standpoint of the learner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Taking a Stand(point): Introduction to a Science (Education) from People for People Wolff-Michael Roth PART I: CULTURING KNOWLEDGES Introduction 2. Revisiting and Reconsidering Authenticity in Science Education: Theory and the Lived Experiences of two African American Females Eileen Carlton Parsons 3. Faith in a Seed: Social Memory, Local Knowledge, and Scientific Practice Carol B. Brandt 4. Language and Experience of Self in Science and Transnational Migration SungWon Hwang & Wolff-Michael Roth 5. Reality Pedagogy: Hip Hop Culture and the Urban Science Classroom Chris Emdin 6. Sister City, Sister Science: Science Education for Sustainable Living and Learning in the New Borderlands Katherine Richardson Bruna, Hannah Lewis 7. Cultural Encounters, Countering Enculturation: Metalogues about Cultures and School Science Carol B. Brandt, Chris Emdin, SungWon Hwang, Eileen Parsons, Katherine Richardson Bruna, Wolff-Michael Roth PART II: OTHERING THE SELF, SELFING THE OTHER Introduction 8. Mothering and science literacy: Challenging Truth-Making and Authority through Counterstory Angela Barton Calabrese 9. Living with Chronic Illness: An Institutional Ethnography of the (Medical) Science and Scientific Literacy in Everyday Life Wolff-Michael Roth 10. A Stranger in a "Real" Land: Engineering Expertise in on an Engineering Campus Karen Tonso 11. Diversity of Knowledges and Contradictions: A Metalogue Angela Barton Calabrese, Karen Tonso, Wolff-Michael Roth EPILOGUE 12. Appreciating Difference in and for Itself: An Epilogue Wolff-Michael Roth Index ...