Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters

This book encapsulates a line of research that looks at how students are positioned as ethical actors/decision makers in biology education by science policy, curriculum, and classroom resources. Its basis comes from a textbook study that examined how

  • PDF / 1,166,350 Bytes
  • 74 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
  • 40 Downloads / 212 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


Jesse Bazzul

Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters

123

SpringerBriefs in Education

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8914

Jesse Bazzul

Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters

123

Jesse Bazzul Faculty of Education University of Regina Regina Canada

ISSN 2211-1921 SpringerBriefs in Education ISBN 978-3-319-39130-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39132-8

ISSN 2211-193X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-39132-8

(eBook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016939570 © The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland

To, Kate, Joseph, and Luca What should I be doing again? The forests of Massachusetts For overgrowing them and setting us on a path The selfless friends Foot masters and those who believe

Contents

1

Science Education as a Site of Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2

The Constitution of Subjectivities: Discourse, Practices, and Repetition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Importance of Althusser, Butler, and Foucault’s Work . Subjectivity and the Discourses of Biology Textbooks . . . . Methodology for Analyzing Science Curriculum/Textbooks. Some Directions for Critical Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intersections of Sex/Gender and Sexuality and Race. . . . Neocolonialisms: The Colonizer and the Colonized . . . . Constituting Depoliticized Neoliberal Subjectivities . . . . The “Ethical Subject” of Science Education . . . . . . . . . Resistances and Reformulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

.