Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies

✍ Scribed by John A. Weaver

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 202
Series: Critical Studies of Education 8
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the history of rhetoric and economics then on the rhetoric of models, statistics, and data, a critique of neoliberalism and its impact on science policy and the foundations of democracy, Harry Collin’s and Robert Evans’ theory of expertise followed by chapters on feminism with a focus on the work of Sharon Traweek, Karen Barad, and Vinciane Despret, postcolonial thought, with attention paid to the work of Daniela Bleichmar, Londa Schiebinger, Judith Carney, Sylvia Wynter, Paul Gilroy, and Sandra Harding, and a final chapter on Nietzsche’s philosophy of science. Each section is introduced by an interlude drawing on autobiographical connections between curriculum studies and science studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies: Why (Not) Science Matters? (John A. Weaver)....Pages 1-8
From Kuhn to the Economics of Science: Curriculum Studies and Science Studies (John A. Weaver)....Pages 9-43
Front Matter ....Pages 45-47
Homo Economicus, Rhetoric, and Curriculum Studies (John A. Weaver)....Pages 49-74
Observing Economics: The Rhetoric of Data, Models, and Statistics (John A. Weaver)....Pages 75-92
Front Matter ....Pages 93-94
The Economics of Science, Neoliberal Thought, and the Loss of Democracy (John A. Weaver)....Pages 95-121
Front Matter ....Pages 123-125
(Post)Colonial Science (John A. Weaver)....Pages 127-146
Working Our Way Back: Colonial Science in Light of Postcolonial Thought (John A. Weaver)....Pages 147-160
Front Matter ....Pages 161-163
Of Hierarchies, Cultures of No Culture, Ontology, Protocols, and Anecdotes: (Re-writing) Women and Science (John A. Weaver)....Pages 165-182
Front Matter ....Pages 183-185
Nietzsche’s Science (John A. Weaver)....Pages 187-198

✦ Subjects

Education; Science Education; Curriculum Studies; International and Comparative Education

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