Improving Urban Science Education
New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers
Published on 7. April 2005
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-7425-3704-0 (ISBN)
Description
Many would argue that the state of urban science education has been static for the past several decades and that there is little to learn from it. Rather than accepting this deficit perspective, Improving Urban Science Education strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist there by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounded in the post structuralism of William Sewell-and brought to life through the experiences of different students, teachers, and school settings in Philadelphia-this book shows how teachers and students can work together to enact meaningful science education when social and cultural differences as well as inappropriate curricula often make the challenges seem insurmountable. Chapters contain rich images of urban youth and each strives to offer insights into problems and suggestions for resolving them. Most significant, in spite of the challenges, the research offers hope and shows that fresh approaches to teaching and learning can lead students-some who have already been pronounced academic, even societal, failures-to becoming avid and deep learners of science.
Reviews / Votes
Tobin (NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar) and colleagues have created lively and personable accounts of how researchers, teachers, and students can work together to identify patterns and contradictions through cogenerative dialogue. This process produces collective agreements intended to improve the urban science-learning environment. These fresh insights offer hope and the notion that successful teaching revolves around positive emotional energy. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * A colorful and detailed mural of ideas and perspectives for transforming urban science education. * Science Education * This collection of 17 articles describes how science is integral to urban students, with contributions from academics, science teachers, and the students themselves. * Scitech Book News *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
689 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-3704-0 (9780742537040)
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Improving Urban Science Education
New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers
E-Book
04/2005
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Kenneth Tobin | Rowhea Elmesky | Gale Seiler
Improving Urban Science Education
New Roles for Teachers, Students, and Researchers
E-Book
04/2005
1st Edition
Bloomsbury eBooks US
€55.99
Available for download
Persons
Kenneth Tobin is Presidential Professor in The Graduate Center at The City University of New York. Rowhea Elmesky is associate professor at Washington University. Gale Seiler is associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Content
Chapter 1 The Who, What, Where, and How of Our Urban Ethnographic Research Chapter 2 Urban Science as a Culturally and Socially Adaptive Practice Chapter 3 Painting the Landscape: Urban Schools and Urban Classrooms Chapter 4 Organizational Mediation of Urban Science Chapter 5 Playin on the Streets-Solidarity in the Classroom: Weak Cultural Boundaries and the Implications for Urban Science Education Chapter 6 All My Life I Been Po': Oral Fluency as a Resource for Science Teaching and Learning Chapter 7 Becoming an Urban Science Teacher: The First Three Years Chapter 8 The Role of Cogenerative Dialogue in Learning to Teach and Transforming Learning Environments Chapter 9 Learning Science and the Centrality of Student Participation Chapter 10 Female Sexuality as Agency and Oppression in Urban Science Classrooms Chapter 11 Meeting the Needs and Adapting to the Capital of a Queen Mother and an Ol' Head: Gender Equity in Urban High School Science Chapter 12 Paperclips + Polymers -> Problems: Learning to Use Levels of Representation in a High School Chemistry Classroom Chapter 13 An Autobiographical Approach to Becoming a Science Teacher in an Urban High School Chapter 14 Beyond Either-Or: Reconsidering Resources in Terms of Structures Chapter 15 My Cultural Awakening in the Classroom Chapter 16 Social and Cultural Capital in Science Teaching: Relating Practice and Reflection Chapter 17 Transforming the Future while Learning from the Past