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Publication Date: 2017-Dec
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A Response to Annette Gough and Jesse Bazzul. Subverting Subjectivity: An Anti-Neoliberal Reformulation of Science Education for Life
Levinson, Ralph
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v12 n4 p907-913 Dec 2017
In responding to Jesse Bazzul's and Annette Gough's articles I maintain that contemporary positivist science curricula cannot address the urgent issues of sustainability and biopower that confront us. Drawing on the writings and interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas I argue that contemplating the meaning of responsibility to the Other is a radically subversive activity and a means of moving from the neoliberal dominance of science education towards a science one steeped in social justice. [For Jesse Bazzul's paper, "Biopolitics and the 'Subject' of Labor in Science Education," see EJ1161774. For Annette Gough's paper, "Searching for a Crack to Let Environment Light In: Ecological Biopolitics and Education for Sustainable Development Discourses" see EJ1161769.]
Descriptors: Science Education, Neoliberalism, Sustainable Development, Political Influences, Political Attitudes, Environmental Education, Science Curriculum, Social Justice
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