Decolonizing School Science
Pedagogically Enacting Agential Literacy and Ecologies of Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20082286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Higgins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 186-205 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Posthuman Research Practices in Education (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137453082_12 |
| OpenAlex | W2474705503 |
| ISBN | 9781137453082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 18 |
Within science education, the oft-included mandate of scientific literacy continues to problematically (re)produce humanism’s Eurocentric legacies through the implicit message that its ontology, Cartesianism, is the only ontology. Working within and against this mandate for decolonizing purposes, this chapter asks: How might scientific literacy be enacted otherwise if it is configured with/in other-than-Cartesian ontologies while still privileging knowing nature (i.e. space, time, and matter) through empirical observation? Drawing from and putting into conversation alternatives to scientific literacy, Karen Barad’s agential literacy and Gregory Cajete’s ecologies of relationships, a pedagogy of relationally storying nature is developed and discussed herein. The relational stories produced by youth participants are then read through and with these alternatives literacies to discuss consequences and possibilities for decolonizing science education
Cartesianism · Conversation · Epistemology · Generativity · Literacy · Mandate · Ontology · Pedagogy · Political science · Science education · Scientific Literacy · Sociology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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Zooming with Babies
“Because That’s What Scientists Do…. They Like to Make Their Own Stuff”
Pedagogical challenges and possibilities of critical thinking in the culturally diverse classroom
A Review of Posthumanist Education Research
Adaptive innovation and ethical dilemmas
In Search of the Native
Ethno science practice as Indigenous wisdom
De/colonizing methodologies in science education
Thinking with Nature
A Syllabus for Response-able Inheritance in Science Education
Deathly storytelling in the ecological city
Subversive SpiritualitiesHow Rituals Enact the World
Western science and traditional knowledge
The Colonizer's Model of the World
Giving an Account of Oneself
Decolonizing Science Education and the Science Teacher
De/colonizing Pedagogy and Pedagogue
Shaking the Tree, Making a Rhizome
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Frames of war
An Emerging Decolonizing Science Education in Canada
Decolonizing Methodologies
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
Thinking Place
Rebraiding Photovoice
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |