ERIC Number: EJ1396303
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1046-560X
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1847
Community-Initiated Science for Transformative Teaching
Upadhyay, Bhaskar; Aleixo, Marina B.
Journal of Science Teacher Education, v34 n5 p443-457 2023
In this paper, the authors explore how teachers and community members in Nepal come together to transform students' science teaching and science learning experiences. The community members, primarily parents of the students, took the opportunity to drive the kinds of science topics and the nature of science activities the teachers needed to teach in their children's science classrooms. This paper qualitatively documents the interactions between the teachers and the community members, the teachers' decisions regarding their science lessons, and the nature of critical consciousness discourses in teachers' built-in classroom interactions with students. The data were collected over 8 weeks through classroom observations, interviews, and student artifacts. The analysis showed that community-initiated partnership with science teachers builds science teaching that values critical community well-being and that the teachers have the agency to provide spaces for learning focused on critical consciousness. The paper uses transformative learning theory, liberation social psychology, and deliberative democracy as the guiding theoretical perspectives to understand transformative science teaching through teacher--community partnership.
Descriptors: Science Education, Teaching Methods, Science Teachers, Partnerships in Education, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Well Being, School Community Relationship, Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Theories, Democracy, Migrant Workers, Rural Areas, Elementary Secondary Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nepal
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