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50 Years of ERIC
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Brandt, Carol B. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
In this forum, I expand upon Teo and Osborne's discussion of teacher agency and curriculum reform. I take up and build upon their analysis to further examine one teacher's frustration in enacting an inquiry-based curriculum and his resulting accommodation of an AP curriculum. In this way I introduce the concept of misrecognition (Bourdieu and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Change, Inquiry, Advanced Placement
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Brandt, Carol B.; Shumar, Wesley; Hammond, Lorie; Carlone, Heidi; Kimmel, Sue; Tschida, Christina – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
Schooling and science education are embedded within larger socio-cultural, political and economic contexts, influenced by global flows of capital, labor, ideas, and images. In this article we consider the ways in which ethnography traces the web of interactions (circuits), in a rural community and the ways that science inquiry was associated with…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Values Education, Science Education, Rural Areas
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Brandt, Carol B. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
Despite completing undergraduate degrees in the life sciences, few Indigenous women choose to pursue careers in scientific research. To help us understand how American Indian students engage with science, this ethnographic research describes (1) how four Navajo women identified with science, and (2) the narratives they offered when we discussed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Scientific Research, Females, American Indians