Socioscientific issues in connection to energy production, use or influence on climate change continue to be at the forefront of local, national, and global debates. The pressing nature of these issues requires citizens not only to understand relevant disciplinary knowledge but also to have the ability to use that knowledge to take action. This…

This article describes the experiences of seventh-grade students living in high poverty areas of New York City who participated in the "Choice, Control and Change" (C3) science curriculum. Data were collected from eight case study students in the form of individual interviews, classroom observations, and student artifacts. Analysis of these data…

The findings reported on in this manuscript emerged from a design experiment conducted at a low-income urban middle school intended to support the teacher in incorporating pedagogical practices supportive of students' everyday knowledge and practices during a 6th grade unit on food and nutrition from the LiFE curriculum. In studying the impact of…

This study draws upon qualitative case study to investigate the connections between the "funds of knowledge" that urban, high-poverty students bring to science learning and the development of a sustained interest in science. We found that youth developed a sustained interest in science when: (1) their science experiences connected with how they…

It has been widely proposed that student voices should play a crucial role in designing and implementing curriculum and instruction that promote students' engagement in science learning. In this study we examined the voices of two seventh grade boys from a low-income urban community as they worked together in an after-school program to create a…

Uses a conceptual argument to expand current vision of performance assessment. Examines how the science of assessment is challenged and transformed within a critical science education perspective and the conditions needed to create an equitable and inclusive practice of science and science assessment across diversity. (Contains 34 references.)…

Reports findings from a qualitative study intended to understand how inner-city mothers perceive science. Compares these findings to argue that those mothers who had spent time doing science with their children were more likely to have a more personal, dynamic, and inquiry-based view of science. Discusses implications for science education reform.…

Discusses key issues of education in general and leads into a critique of the relationships among capitalism, science, and education. Describes the implications that critical pedagogy might have for productively confronting these relationships in urban settings. (Author/MM)

Explicitly political research methodologies must be considered and incorporated into urban education in order to address issues of race, class, and gender equity. Draws from research on homeless children. (Author/MM)

Discusses the need for science educators to understand the relationship between cultural and socioeconomic issues and the science education of inner-city students. Studies a homeless family in a major metropolitan area in the Northeast and frames the analysis through the pedagogical questions of representation of science through culture,…

Presents the focus of this theme issue that is devoted to examining critical, feminist, and poststructural theories and the implications these theories have for considering the ideal, a science education for all children. (PVD)

Explores what it means to create a science for all from the perspective of urban homeless children. Draws on the work of critical and feminist scholars in science and education as well as on teaching and research to question how inclusive the science education community is in its efforts to understand the margins of science for all. Contains 44…