Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice by Ma... - 9783031393327

Science Education Towards Social and Ecological JusticeProvocations and Conversations\nAuthor(s): Matthew Weinstein, Chantal Pouliot, Isabel Martins, Ralph Levinson, Lyn Carter, Larry Bencze, Ajay Sharma\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783031393327, 978-3031393327\nSynopsis\nThis book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States. The common goal of these educators is to produce more socially/ecologically just models and practices of science education. The book considers and reworks the key-terms of current social justice: agency, realism, justice, and power. Its first section explores re-inhabiting science in the quest for more just worlds including reterritorializing science within emergent theories of critical realism, engaging citizens activists with corpo.