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Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 240 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4102 g

Reihe: Cultural Studies of Science Education

Roth / van Eijck

Imagination of Science in Education

From Epics to Novelization
2013
ISBN: 978-94-017-8173-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

From Epics to Novelization

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 240 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4102 g

Reihe: Cultural Studies of Science Education

ISBN: 978-94-017-8173-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands


Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about the messy, day-to-day practice of science in which scientists are ordinary humans. Surprisingly, the process by which this imagination of science in education occurs has rarely been theorized. This is all the more remarkable since great thinkers tend to agree that the formation of images — imagination — is at the root of how human beings modify their material world. Hence this process in school science is fundamental to the way in which scientists, being the successful agents in/of science education, actually create their own scientific enterprise once they take up their professional life.

One of the first to examine the topic, this book takes a theoretical approach to understanding the process of imagining science in education. The authors utilize a number of interpretive studies in both science and science education to describe and contrast two opposing forces in the imagination of science in education: epicization and novelization. Currently, they argue, the imagination of science in education is dominated by epicization, which provides an absolute past of scientific heroes and peak discoveries. This opens a distance between students and today’s scientific enterprises, and contrasts sharply with the wider aim of science education to bring the actual world of science closer to students.

To better understand how to reach this aim, the authors offer a detailed look at novelization, which is a continuous renewal of narratives that derives from dialogical interaction. The book brings together two hitherto separate fields of research in science education: psychologically informed research on students’ images of science and semioticallyinformed research on images of science in textbooks. Drawing on a series of studies in which children participate in the imagination of science in and out of the classroom, the authors show how the process of novelization actually occurs in the practice of education and outline the various images of science this process ultimately yields.

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Preface.- INTRODUCTION: Imagination, Epicization, and Novelization in Science Education.- PART I: EPICS OF SCIENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION.- 1. The Heroes of Science.- 2. What Scientific Heroes Are (Not) Doing.- PART II: A NEED FOR NOVELIZED IMAGES OF SCIENCE.- 3. Science as One Form of Human Knowing.- 4. Science as Dynamic Practice.- PART III: TOWARD NOVELIZATION IN/OF SCIENCE EDUCATION.- 5. Scientific Literacy in the Wild.- 6. Translations of Scientific Practice.- 7. Place and Chronotope.- PART IV: NOVELIZING DISCOURSE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION.- 8. Science Education for Sustainable Development.- 9. Novelizing Native and Scientific Discourse.- 10. Fullness of Life as a Minimal Novelizing Unit.- CODA: Novelizing the Novelized Image of Science in Education.- References.- Index.



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