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Teaching science for social justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calabrese Barton, Angela
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]
Series:Teaching for social justice series.
Subjects:
Science > Study and teaching > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Science > Study and teaching (Elementary) > Activity programs > United States > Case studies.
Poor children > Education > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Education, Urban > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Social justice > United States > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Overview : youth lives and youth science
  • Learning with urban youth
  • Living in the borderland
  • Power and co-opting science spaces
  • Relevant science : activating resources in nonstandard ways
  • Transformations : science as a tool for change
  • Building communities in support of youth's science practices
  • Empowering science education and youth's practices of science.