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through various contexts and disciplines with a focus on its use in traditional Western philosophy. Within this tradition, the alteric relationship between the Self and the Other was typified by a ... and nativism in American society. Detailing the early twentieth century postmodern turn in Western philosophy which rehabilitated the Other from the tyranny of the Self, I use that history as a model
depending on its social, cultural, and political contexts. In this paper, scientific literacy is conceptualised through visions I, II and III. The first one is focused on the content and scientific processes ... political field, and therefore, we can see relevant opportunities for transformation and emancipation, understanding science curriculum as a social practice. In recent years, special attention has been placed
”: learning from ACT UP towards socio-political action in science education”; Suzani Cassiani and Irlan von Linsingen’s “Freirean inspirations in solidary internationalism between East Timor and Brazil in ... Transnational conversations about science education: Paulo Freire, interculturality and socio-political transformation Lead Editor: Betzabe Torres Olave. In this article I will examine some of the
participation, in relation to dominant discourses in physics culture, and wider social and political discourses. Results indicate that students narrate their choice as based on motivations of physics being a ... , Jones and Uzzi 2022 ), and widened participation in higher education is also a way of increasing the educated workforce, often seen as an important political goal. The case that is studied here, the
In this article, we argue that mainstream science education is contaminated by neoliberal values and functions in the service of political domination and exploitation and that a neoliberal and ... to assimilate and homogenize the other—including knowledge, land, political spaces, cultures, and traditions. Freire (2003) also identified how problematizing contradictions, such as those that may
epistemological and political conflict between science, public health education, and alternative medical systems that has been rekindled by the pandemic in India. To do so, we critically examine media articles and ... , we discuss the tensions surrounding science, biopower, and citizenship that have been thrown into sharp relief by the COVID 19 pandemic. We situate these tensions in the epistemological and political
evolution. Addressing these concerns requires making more space for philosophy in the curriculum. ... . Woodford 0 Lead Editor: M. J. Reiss. 0 Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University , Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE , UK This review explores Thomas Lessl's
teacher. Each of these cases surfaces youth’s ongoing orientation to the fact that STEM learning is relational, and political, exemplifying pockets of resistance against the structures of schooling that ... consciousness through enactments of political clarity within science instruction and content. Similarly, Gunkel and Tolbert (2018) articulate the curricular need “to support students as they learn to engage an
authorities state what they want, repeatedly, in efforts to cast doubt on actual scientific evidence. All this is done at the demise of human safety in order to prop up egos and power. The socio-political ... climate where we find ourselves is notably controlled by white, male, dominant administrations with xenophobic rhetoric, dangerous calls for social unrest, and scientific illiteracy. This socio-political
—univocal, pre-existing and representational, recent accounts of cognition derived from philosophy, linguistics, neurosciences and science and technology studies, point to our ability to understand and make ... -known examples are detailed in the history and philosophy of science, as discussed by Brown (2004) : ‘acquired’ metaphors such as the double helix, ladder of evolution, life-cycle are so well
city in China that was once colonized by British over a century ago. In the past, there was a political border separating Hong Kong as the British sovereign state and mainland China. A border is a rigid ... was a borderland, a political and geographical area near a boundary where the East met the West. On the surface, Western values such as capitalism, consumerism, and individualism appeared to dominate
) argued that they result from a range of psychological, political and social factors. They point out that conspiracy belief is stronger among people who consistently seek patterns and meaning in their ... and Wiles 2014) , and there is a growing literature on the links between political and religious conservatism and cognitive bias (Watts 2017) . Students emerging from ACE are likely to have
mainstream STEM education journals, peer-reviewed papers rarely include community college science students or faculty; this underrepresentation makes studying how inequitable political and economic conditions ... oppressive systems and also offering possibilities for social transformation. Both educational approaches reject the idea of teaching topics in isolation from the historical, social, cultural, and political
justice in education. My analysis draws specifically on the intellectual ideas of Paulo Freire, whose work continues to influence issues of theoretical, political, and pedagogical importance. A leading ... cultural, historical, social, and political contexts. Freire's ideas offer several themes of relevance to this discussion, including his banking conception of education, dialog and conscientization, and
collective imaginaries, and we hope that this issue attends a little bit to these possibilities. Citical pedagogies and pedagogical imagination Critical pedagogies are a philosophy of education where ... knowledge is produced in dialogue with others. As such, it is a philosophy of dialogue and an ontology of differences where multiple ways of being are embraced. However, as Freire highlighted, dialogue
individual white, male scientists and a ‘lack of attention to [the science curriculum’s] intrinsic social, political and cultural aspects’ (Rezende and Ostermann 2020) . We have found de Sousa Santos (2018 ... ) provide a useful insight into the political tendency in environmental and sustainability education which we can helpfully apply here. They see the political tendency as deriving from the question of “how to
. However, sexuality education turns out to not only be a matter of scientific facts. This study accentuates how natural science, historical, political, cultural, and market-oriented intertwinings affect ... political and governmental exercise of power. Biopolitical thought is, however, not a new idea and can be traced back to ancient Greece. Aristotle and Plato were, much like researchers in the mid-1900s
chapter, because most of the early science knowledge making and activism in ACT UP was recorded by the New York chapter. Paulo Freire (1970b) described critical and political consciousness (conscientização ... suggest a sociopolitical turn as a shift in scholarship. This shift moves the focus of science education in a different direction to center the political entanglements that we are already immersed in and
consciousness. His philosophy focuses on intentionality, how people understood a situation or experience before they began to make meaning of it, or in other words, how the phenomena come to our conscious ... experience a lifeworld is based on our situation relative to it. For Husserl, phenomenology should demonstrate that practices within philosophy and the social and natural sciences are not used to interpret or
controversial issue, we mean an issue which is understood differently by people because of its and people’s socio-political background and lack of knowledge resulting from pro-capitalist falsehoods and neoliberal ... reasons of vaccine refusal. While some individuals advocate vaccine rejection in a political context as a rebellion against the status quo, others advocate vaccine rejection in a social context that will
