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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783996203321

Autore

Roth Wolff-Michael <1953-, >

Titolo

Rethinking scientific literacy / / Wolff-Michael Roth and Angela Calabrese Barton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93493-2

9786610100293

0-415-94843-6

1-135-93494-0

1-280-10029-X

0-203-46391-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BartonAngela Calabrese

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching

Science - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Introduction; Science as Collective Praxis, Literacy, Power, and Struggle for a Better World; Scientific Literacy as Emergent Feature of Collective Praxis; Scientific Literacy, Hegemony, and Struggle; Politics, Power, and Science in Inner-City Communities; Margin and Center; Constructing Scientific Dis/Ability; Science Education as and for Citizen Science; Dangerous Teaching: Using Science as Tool and Context to Work for Social Justice; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a new and entirely different perspective on scientific literacy in that it valorizes the capacities of human beings to participate in worldly affairs and to change their life contexts.