The article to which this essay responds advises risky practices that trouble traditional distinctions between science and not-science (things not scientific in nature), particularly its argument to politicize science as a way to organize teaching. Raises questions about science as a regime of truth in a place where such questions carry much…

Focuses on the marginalized discourses that have arisen to oppose the racism, sexism, and classism espoused and advocated by mainstream science since its institutionalization up until the first half of the 20th century. Contains 39 references. (Author/PVD)

Students need to develop knowledge and skills in order to ascertain whether scientific evidence justifies a claim or a conclusion. Suggests that critical feminist interpretive frameworks may be able to alter the ways in which science research is conducted. Scientists from marginalized groups have spent years convincing other scientists that their…

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…

Suggests that educating all students entails going beyond seeking ways to enable marginalized students to engage in present educational forms. An education for homeless and minority children involves rethinking foundational assumptions about the nature of the disciplines, the purposes of education, and the role of teachers. Respecting diversity…

Develops the analytical framework in which inscription (i.e., grades) and actor network are the central points. Exemplifies this framework in a case study of grades and grading practices. Shows how the framework can be used to provide constructive poststructuralist analyses and how the efforts of critical and liberation pedagogies are undercut by…

Connects taken-for-granted activities to the micropolitics of differentiation in institutions such as schools. This is done by employing theoretical traditions taken from cultural studies of science and from philosophies not often found within the science education community. Analyzes the mechanisms through which grading works as a technology of…

Argues that a teacher's practice reflects changing experiences, knowledge, values, and identities, and as such can be productively thought of as a site for learning as well as a site for expounding upon what is known. Suggests a vision for what constitutes effective practice different from that commonly held in science. Contains 33 references.…

Teacher knowledge--indeed teachers themselves--is always unfinished and incomplete. Knowledge never exists outside of a context of use. The shift to seeing teaching as site of cultural production invites the question, What structures of human relationship will scientists and science educators construct in and through the work they perform? The…

One dominant approach to reforming science education implements collaborative approaches to learning. Feminist pedagogy is concerned with transforming both how students learn science and the science curriculum that students are expected to learn. Collaborative approaches serve to reproduce the dominant discourse of existing science systems.…

Demonstrates, for a nonscience feminist educator, ways in which science and science education can be arenas for liberatory pedagogical practices where socioeconomic power relations can be challenged. The evolution and practice of scientific knowledge itself operates to exploit and oppress people everywhere in the name of a dominant class. (PVD)

Questions the phenomenon and the implications of being female in school science through girls' and young women's stories interwoven with a narrative from the author, a female researcher in science education. Discusses several directions within teaching that interpret bell hooks' engaged pedagogy which emphasizes a commitment to self-actualization…

Pulls apart the artificial separation between that which is scientific and the personal, thus providing meaningful context for the science classroom. Often discourse about girls and science has focused on how we can fix girls so that they can fit into the science classroom. Instead, the goals of science education must be reconstructed to include…

Argues that the knowledge explosion in science promotes a perception that scientific knowledge is temporary and unreliable. Presents an ecological example that partially supports these conclusions. Contains 35 references. (DDR)

Argues that insights from scholarship in the sociology of science can provide a powerful basis for making science education more authentic and inclusive. Describes how adopting sociological ideas can provide unique opportunities for students. Contains 46 references. (DDR)