Science Education from People for People: Taking a Stand(point)

Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book

• introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns within or outside school;
• develops a new form of scholarship based on the dialogic nature of science as process and product; and
• achieves these two objectives in a readable but scho...