Socio-Scientific Issues via Actor Network Theory.

Fountain, Renee-Marie

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Publication Date: 1999

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Socio-Scientific Issues via Actor Network Theory.

Fountain, Renee-Marie

Journal of Curriculum Studies, v31 n3 p339-58 May-June 1999

Focuses on the reproduction of knowledge in science education and how socio-scientific issues are depicted/accounted for. Reviews contemporary epistemological questions of knowledge production. Outlines the Actor Network Theory (ANT), an alternative epistemology, describing the principal tenets using examples from the nature/nurture debate. Addresses ANT in education. (CMK)

Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, Epistemology, Higher Education, Nature Nurture Controversy, Science and Society, Science Education, Sciences, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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