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ERIC Number: EJ916731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Mar
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1871-1502
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Becoming a Science Teacher: Moving toward Creolized Science and an Ethic of Cosmopolitanism
Seiler, Gale
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v6 n1 p13-32 Mar 2011
Although communities and schools in North America are increasingly diverse and positioned in a global web, schools continue to adhere to Western norms and the teacher workforce remains largely White, continuing an ideology of collective sameness and conformity. Hybridization of teacher identity and of science teaching are suggested as ways to advance an ethic of solidarity through difference (cosmopolitanism) with science teaching as its vehicle. In this paper, I explore identity hybridization among non-dominant science teachers as they merge identity narratives, or who they are around science and science teaching, with who they are out-of-school. Our attention is focused on their experiences of dis-identification with science in terms of diaspora, or the sense of being taken away from what one knows and values. By generating a creolized approach to science teaching, teachers create possibilities for greater student identification with science in school, which in turn has potential for changing the face of who does science and of science itself.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: North America
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