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Publication Date: 2012
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Schools/Citizen Science: A Response to "The Future of Citizen Science"
Weinstein, Matthew
Democracy & Education, v20 n1 Article 6 2012
This paper builds on Mueller, Tippins, and Bryan's paper to ask how neoliberal restructuring impacts the form of appropriate and possible democratic science/education. It examines the compatibilities between antidemocratic tendencies of current schooling and common forms citizen science. It also clarifies several details regarding the street-medic movement. The paper suggests that distinguishing between democracy as participation and democracy as opposition would help clarify the appropriate forms, limits, and possibilities of democratic forms of science in schooling.
Descriptors: Democracy, Politics of Education, Neoliberalism, Science Education, Science Instruction, Science Projects, Global Approach, Science Curriculum, Social Justice
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Language: English
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