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Kwah, Helen; Milne, Catherine; Tsai, Tzuchi; Goldman, Ricki; Plass, Jan L. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
This formative design study examines how a program curriculum and implementation was emergently (re)designed in dynamic relation to the expressed emotions of teachers and students. The context was a yearlong afterschool game design program for STEM learning at an urban and public all-girls middle school. Using Randall Collins' (Interaction ritual…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Implementation, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Milne, Catherine – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
In "Space", relations, and the learning of science", Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu use ethnomethodology to explore high school interns learning shopwork and shoptalk in a research lab that is located in a world class facility for water quality analysis. Using interaction analysis they identify how spaces, like a research…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Ethnography, High School Students, Laboratories
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Milne, Catherine – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
In this issue, I draw together two sets of papers, with apparently different agendas. Most of the original papers in this issue use various learning perspectives and research approaches to explore the challenges and affordances of digital games for learning science. Associated forum papers challenge the authors and us to critically examine our own…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Research Methodology, Play, Global Approach
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Milne, Catherine; Rubin, Kayla – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
In this Forum paper we synthesize some of the main ideas from three papers: Auli Orlander and Per-Olof Wickman's ("Cult Stud Sci Educ" 6, 2011), "Bodily experiences in secondary school biology," Roger Sages' ("Cult Stud Sci Educ" 6, 2011), "About Descartes: Uses and misuses," and Steve Alsop's ("Cult Stud Sci Educ" 6, 2011), "The body bites back!"…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Teachers, Science Education, Human Body
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Milne, Catherine; Pickett, Linda Hess; Hartley, M. Shaeed; Lowe, Paul – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
This collection of historical accounts provides diverse perspectives on the structure and culture of the community of researchers who completed their studies under the mentorship of researchers at "SMEC." These her/histories provide multiple perspectives on the goals and values that motivated educators to become "SMEC" scholars.
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Program Attitudes, Organizational Culture, Values
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Milne, Catherine – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
In "The Secret Identity of a Biology Textbook: straight and naturally sexed," Jesse Bazzul and Heather Sykes conduct a case study of a biology textbook as an oppressive instructional material. Using queer theory they explore how the text of the biology textbook produces "truths" about sex, gender, and sexuality. Their analysis is complemented by…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Biology, Instructional Materials, Sexuality