{"title":"How materialities and space–time travellings in class can breathe new life into Swedish secondary school Natural Science sexuality education","authors":"Sara Planting-Bergloo, Auli Arvola Orlander","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10227-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10227-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of Swedish Natural Science sexuality education. These classes tend to provide factual knowledge, focus on the negative outcomes of sexuality, be heteronormative and include little time for discussion—like much school sexuality education across the world—and this study aims to contribute ideas about new becomings of Natural Science sexuality education. Baradian theorising was used to explore how materialities and space and time travels within the classroom can challenge often-dominant perspectives. Data were produced in a secondary school and consist of teacher-researcher discussions and participatory observations in class. A futuristic case introduced students to spaces, times and materialities that not only helped the group move beyond a medical focus but also made the sexuality education more student centred. The participating teachers suggested imaginary lust-oriented scenarios for the 15–16-year-old students as an entrance to more preventive messages in teaching. A taken-for-granted heterosexual premise was also challenged with gender-neutral words and pronouns, an exercise on how to use both condoms and dental dams, and a time travel into future possibilities for reproduction and parenting. The acknowledgement of spacetimematter intra-activity in teaching thereby enabled new becomings of Swedish Natural Science sexuality education. However, although this study suggests how dominant medical and heterosexual perspectives can be challenged, it also made visible the absence of cultural, religious, asexuality and disability perspectives in Swedish sexuality education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gail Richmond, Roberta Hunter, Tali Tal, Grace Tukurah
{"title":"Communities of practice and the elevation of urban elementary teacher discourse about critical pedagogy of place","authors":"Gail Richmond, Roberta Hunter, Tali Tal, Grace Tukurah","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10221-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10221-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children who live in under-resourced communities and attend under-resourced schools deserve access to high-quality teachers and educational opportunities to support their success and well-being. This study emerged from a professional development (PD) for urban teachers working in such schools, to expand educational opportunities for elementary students through outdoor science teaching. Engaging frameworks of communities of practice (CoP) and critical pedagogy of place (CPP), this critical ethnographic study investigates how urban elementary teachers engage in discourse about critical issues of place. Additionally, the investigation seeks to understand how a CoP supports such discourse. The primary data for this study were multiple sets of researcher field notes collected from participant teachers during virtual spring and in-person summer PD. Over the course of the PD, participants shifted from viewing their outdoor teaching spaces with a deficit perspective to an asset-focused one. As they visited one another’s teaching sites, the CoP the teachers were a part of created opportunity for discourse about social justice linked to issues of place within their particular school neighborhoods. The ability of urban elementary teachers to connect social justice to issues of place and to the teaching of science has implications for countering the injustice that characterizes many urban communities in the USA and elsewhere.</p>","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141526782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Pérez-Rodríguez, Gonzalo R. Guerrero, Sebastián Donoso-Díaz
{"title":"Scientific culture in the normative and curriculum documents of Initial Teacher Education in Chile","authors":"Francisco Pérez-Rodríguez, Gonzalo R. Guerrero, Sebastián Donoso-Díaz","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10226-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10226-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article aims to analyze conceptual, epistemological, and didactic perspectives that contribute to the modeling of scientific culture in normative and curricular documents guiding initial teaching education in natural sciences programs in Chile. A qualitative approach was employed, utilizing thematic content analysis to inductively extract codes. These codes were grouped into the following categories: (1) Science literacy, (2) Science for citizenship, (3) Science education, (4) Teacher education and standards, (5) Teaching and learning process, and (6) Epistemological and didactic approaches. These categories provide insights to the modeling of scientific culture from the documents analyzed. The study concludes that the referenced model of scientific culture transcends deficit thinking and simplistic tendencies by incorporating sociocultural aspects, thus offering opportunities for a contextualized scientific education. While the model recognizes multiple cultural dimensions involved in the development of scientific literacy, there are noticeable inconsistencies in the epistemological and didactic aspects, indicating traces of ‘traditional’ visions in cultural and scientific education. Therefore, it is recommended that approaches nurturing the development of southern epistemologies and a scientific culture tailored to local contexts be integrated alongside global trends in teacher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141526783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. A. Takeuchi, Shima Dadkhahfard, M. Kopparla, Raneem Elhowari
{"title":"Intergenerational transdisciplinary knowing toward stewarding the land of refuge: learning through the pandemic","authors":"M. A. Takeuchi, Shima Dadkhahfard, M. Kopparla, Raneem Elhowari","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10218-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10218-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying children’s small science and early engineering learning process to help shape their cultural identity in culturally valued play-based experience","authors":"Shukla Sikder","doi":"10.1007/s11422-023-10209-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-023-10209-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141123959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sometimes I still do not see myself as a computer scientist: Negotiating a computer science identity as a Latina undergraduate and youth mentor","authors":"Gislaine Martinez-Campa, Meredith Kier","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10224-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10224-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study puts forth the counternarrative of the first author Gislaine, a first-generation undergraduate student, Latina, and computer science major. Gislaine participated in a research internship and STEM mentorship program led by the second author, Meredith. Through this program, Gislaine designed and taught CS lessons to predominantly low-income, African-American middle school students over an 8-day urban summer school program. By analyzing Gislaine’s written account of her journey to CS, as well as planning documents and written reflections on her daily experiences mentoring youth, we explore how Gislaine’s intersecting social identities shape her experiences both as a CS learner and as a mentor to youth. Gislaine’s counternarrative illuminates the systems of oppression present in schools and the CS field, while also highlighting Gislaine’s transformative approaches to mentoring students in CS. Gislaine’s narratives emphasize the importance of humanizing CS and leveraging students’ strengths to promote equitable access to CS education. Through her experiences, she underscores the significance of recognizing and addressing systemic barriers, while also advocating for inclusive and empowering educational practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141063807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dramaturgical analysis of Boyle and Hobbes in developing NOS-based chemistry teaching materials for pre-service teachers","authors":"Hyunshik Ju, Seoung-Hey Paik","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10216-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10216-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140975216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unveiling the production of non-participation in the primary school science classroom","authors":"Ene Ernst Hoppe, H. Holmegaard","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10220-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10220-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140976956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Gandolfi, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton, Luciano Fernandes Silva, Maria Bernadete Sarti da Silva Carvalho
{"title":"Teacher educators and environmental justice: conversations about education for environmental justice between science and geography teacher educators based in England and Brazil","authors":"H. Gandolfi, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton, Luciano Fernandes Silva, Maria Bernadete Sarti da Silva Carvalho","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10212-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10212-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140973156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María González-Howard, Sage Andersen, Karina Méndez Pérez, Samuel Lee
{"title":"Re-imagining science education research toward a language for science perspective","authors":"María González-Howard, Sage Andersen, Karina Méndez Pérez, Samuel Lee","doi":"10.1007/s11422-024-10213-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-024-10213-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47132,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies of Science Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140977612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}