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Rethinking Scientific Literacy (Paperback)
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Rethinking Scientific Literacy (Paperback)
Series: Critical Social Thought
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This book proposes a new way to conceive of scientific literacy, as
it has emerged from two research agendas that the authors have been
pursuing independently but which have converged conceptually. This
book presents a new and entirely different perspective than
previous books on scientific literacy in that it valorizes the
capacities of human beings to participate in worldly affairs and to
change their life contexts. The book is important because it
portrays a positive perspective, one that embodies the capacity of
all human beings (independently of knowing that scientists think
that protons and neutrons constitute the atomic nucleus) to use
science both as a contested field and as tool in order to change
the world. For example, the youth in Chapter 4 who transform an
empty inner-city lot from an area for dealers and pushers to a
community garden, or the seventh-grade students in Chapter 7, who
generate knowledge that is subsequently being used by
environmentalists that work in and transform their community.
Therefore it is the authors hope that students welcome the
opportunity to study and participate in science education, not in
the hope of becoming scientists, but for participa
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