Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education

This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science educationits concepts, categories, policies, and practicescontribute to the exclusion (or problematic inclusion) of Indigenous science while also shaping its ability respond. Herein, he undertakes an unsettling homework to address the ways in which settler colonial logics linger and lurk within sedimented and stratified knowledge-practices, turning the gaze back onto science education. This homework critically inhabits culture, theory, ontology, and history as they relate to the multicultural science education debate, a central curricular location that acts as both a potential entry point and problematic gatekeeping device, in order to (re)open the space of responsiveness towards Indigenous ways-of-knowing-in-being.

Open Access publication Deconstructs science education's responsibility towards Indigenous science Investigates the cultural, theoretical, historical, and ontological contexts of the multicultural science education debate

Auteur

Marc Higgins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he is affiliated with the Faculty of Education's Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP). His research labors the methodogical space between Indigenous, post-structural, and post-humanist theories in order to respond to contested ways of knowing and being, such as Indigenous science.

Contenu

1. Unsettling Metaphysics in Science Education.- 2. The Homework of Response-Ability in Science Education.- 3. Serious Play: Inflecting the Multicultural Science Education Debate through and for Socratic Dialogue.- 4. Mirrors, Prisms, and Diffraction Gratings: Placing the Optics of the Critical Gaze in Science Education Under Erasure (After the Critique of Critique).- 5. Tinkering with/in the Multicultural Science Education Debate: Towards Positioning An(Other) Ontology.- 6. Positioning Cartesianism as an Ontology Within Science Education: Towards a More Response-Able Inheritance with Dr. Frédérique Apffel-Marglin.- 7. Response-ablity Revisted: Towards Re(con)figuring Scientific Literacy.- 8. Towards Being Wounded by Thought: Indigenous Metaphysics is (Still) Waiting in the Wings of Science Education.