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Individualism, Instrumental Reason and Policy Texts: Some Considerations from the Perspective of Contemporary Political Philosophy
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Vilanova, Rita; Martins, Isabel – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
This article dialogues with Matthew Weinstein's paper named "NGSS, disposability, and the ambivalence of Science in/under neoliberalism," in which he explores the argument that at the same time the NGSS framework is largely identified with neoliberal discourse, it presents points of ambivalence and resistance within. In this dialogue, we…
Descriptors: Individualism, Neoliberalism, Social Change, Ethics
The Interplay between Structure and Agency in the Enactment of STEM Policy
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Martins, Isabel; Pinhão, Francine; Vilanova, Rita – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
In their paper, Hoeg and Bencze argue that current STEM curriculum guidelines prioritise the training of a workforce in detriment of a democratically grounded education for citizenship. We agree that there is an insufficient questioning about which type of citizenship STEM curricula would favour and wish to contribute to this debate by (1)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy
The Issue of the Arrangement of New Environments for Science Education through Collaborative Actions between Schools, Museums and Science Centres in the Brazilian Context of Teacher Training
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Monteiro, Bruno Andrade Pinto; Martins, Isabel; de Souza Janerine, Aline; de Carvalho, Fabiana Cristina – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
We present, in this article, an investigation about the potential of the relationship between formal and non-formal educational environments. Therefore it is not an empirical research, but an essay on the topic. This paper demonstrates the concept that science education and science outreach can be privileged by actions that are developed by closer…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
The Role of Journals in Building up Communities: The Experience of "Ciência em Tela"
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Martins, Isabel; de Souza Barros, Susana – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
"Ciência em Tela" is an open access Brazilian science teacher education online journal that has been published twice a year since 2008 and which encourages the participation of professionals with different backgrounds and the submission of a variety of textual genres, besides research papers. Another feature is that the journal includes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Electronic Publishing, Periodicals