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ERIC Number: EJ881924
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1871-1502
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Class-First Analysis in a Continuum: An Approach to the Complexities of Schools, Society, and Insurgent Science
Valdiviezo, Laura Alicia
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v5 n2 p435-445 Jun 2010
This essay addresses Katherine Richardson Bruna's paper: "Mexican Immigrant Transnational Social Capital and Class Transformation: Examining the Role of Peer Mediation in Insurgent Science", through five main points. First, I offer a comparison between the traditional analysis of classism in Latin America and Richardson Bruna's call for a class-first analysis in the North American social sciences where there has been a tendency to obviate the specific examination of class relations and class issues. Secondly, I discuss that a class-first analysis solely cannot suffice to depict the complex dimensions in the relations of schools and society. Thus, I suggest a continuum in the class-first analysis. Third, I argue that social constructions surrounding issues of language, ethnicity, and gender necessarily intersect with issues of class and that, in fact, those other constructions offer compatible epistemologies that aid in representing the complexity of social and institutional practices in the capitalist society. Richardson Bruna's analysis of Augusto's interactions with his teacher and peers in the science class provides a fourth point of discussion in this essay. As a final point in my response I discuss Richardson Bruna's idea of making accessible class-first analysis knowledge to educators and especially to science teachers.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico; North America
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