Mueller, Michael P.

Tippins, Deborah J.

EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism Situated Tensions for Science Education.

Cham

2014

9783319116082 33191

This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy. It uses ecojustice to evaluate the holistic connections between cultural and natural systems, environmentalism, sustainability and Earth-friendly marketing trends, and introduces citizen science and youth activism as two of the pedagogical ways ecojustice philosophy can be enacted. It also comprises evidence-based practice with international service, community embedded curriculum, teacher preparation, citizen monitoring and community activism, student-scientist partnerships, socioscientific issues, and new avenues for educational research.

Endorsements; Preface; Introducing the Book Series; References; Contents; Chapter 1: A Life in Relation to the Broader Stroke of Education; Gwik'ee Gwiriheendaii Gwizhrii Go'aii; We Must Make an Effort; Towards the Renewal of the Ecological in Science Education; References; Part I: Ecojustice Section; Chapter 2: Together We Look for Answers; Chapter 3: Put Away Your No. 2 Pencils-Reconceptualizing School Accountability Through EcoJustice; EcoJustice Theory-Conceptual Framework; The Culture of Measurement; The Dominant Accountability Movement. Problems with the Dominant Conception of School Accountability Problems with the Economic Competitiveness Discourse of School Accountability; Need for a Different Vision of School Accountability; An Alternate Vision for School Accountability; School Accountability-A Moral Obligation; Biesta's Conceptual Model for Functions of Educational Systems; Biesta's Conceptual Model Applied to EcoJustice Theory; Qualification; Socialization; Subjectification; Implications for Accountability in Science Education; New Visions of Ecological Literacy. Reject the Hegemony of Quantitative Test Scores Diversity Principle: Multiple Measures; Counterarguments-Politics, Mandates, and Complexity of Change; Too Politically Charged; The School System Cannot Shoulder Another Mandate; Complex and Overwhelming Ideas; Effective for What? And for Whom?; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Provoking EcoJustice-Taking Citizen Science and Youth Activism Beyond the School Curriculum; Part I: Building Youth 'Change Agents' on an Expedition in the Arctic: Rethinking Science, Environmental, and Civics Education (Lisa Glithero). Students on Ice as an Experiential Learning Framework Part II: Developing Collaborative Social Action Curriculum Projects: Media Studies, Science Education and Ecojustice Activism [Nicholas Ng-A-Fook]; Part III: Advancing Citizen Science and Youth Activism Through Ecojustice-The Story of Marianna [Giuliano Reis]; Brushing Up on Biology; When Past and Present Meet Up; Lessons (L)earned; Sharing Our Efforts to Promote Ecojustice; References; Chapter 5: The Sustainable Farm School-Waldorf Philosophy and EcoJustice Theory in Aesthetic Contexts; Rudolf Steiner's Vision and Waldorf Education. Exploring Spirituality and Interconnectedness Pedagogy of Sustainability, Eco-critical Examination, and Eco-imagination; The Sustainable Farm School-Mission and Vision; Three Courses at SFS; Urban Gardening, Philosophy, and Holistic Nutrition; Urban Gardening; Philosophy; Holistic Nutrition; Cultivating Caretakers of Their Community; References; Chapter 6: Building Teacher Leaders and Sustaining Local Communities Through a Collaborative Farm to School Education Project-What EcoJustice Work Can PreService Teachers Do?; EcoJustice and Farm to School. EcoJustice Through Communities of Practice. This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy. It uses ecojustice to evaluate the holistic connections between cultural and natural systems, environmentalism, sustainability and Earth-friendly marketing trends, and introduces citizen science and youth activism as two of the pedagogical ways ecojustice philosophy can be enacted. It also comprises evidence-based practice with international service.