Identity Construction and Science Education Research: Learning, Teaching, and Being in Multiple Contexts

✍ Scribed by Maria Varelas (auth.), Maria Varelas (eds.)

• Publisher: SensePublishers
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Series: Bold Visions in Educational Research 35
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Methodological Considerations for Studying Identities in School Science....Pages 9-25
Multiple Identities and the Science self....Pages 27-42
Kay’s coat of many Colors....Pages 43-60
“To Understand the news you need Science!” Girls’ Positioning and Subjectivity in and Beyond a Newsletter Activity in an Afterschool Science Program....Pages 61-78
Young Children’s Multimodal Identity Stories about Being Scientists....Pages 79-95
Meanings of Success in Science....Pages 97-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Positional Identity as a lens for Connecting Elementary Preservice Teachers to Teaching in Urban Classrooms....Pages 105-121
Exploring Linkages between Identity and Emotions in Teaching for Social Justice in Science Teacher Education....Pages 123-139
Colliding Identities, Emotional Roller Coasters, and Contradictions of Urban Science Education....Pages 141-156
Recognizing “Smart Super-Physicists”....Pages 157-172
Consequential Validity and Science Identity Research....Pages 173-188
Developing Critical Conversations About Identity Research in Science Education....Pages 189-196

✦ Subjects

Education (general)