EAN: 9783030019730

MATERIAL PRACTICE AND MATERIALITY TOO LONG IGNO...

In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its
role in scientific practice  such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of
science education programs in a number of countries. As a construct  culture can be understood
as material and social practice. This definition is useful for informing researchers' nuanced
explorations of the nature of science and inclusive decisions about the practice of science
education (Sewell  1999). As fields of material social practice and worlds of meaning  cultures
are contradictory  contested  and weakly bounded. The notion of culture as material social
practices leads researchers to accept that material practice is as important as conceptual
development (social practice).However  in education and science education there is a tendency
to ignore material practice and to focus on social practice with language as the arbiter of
such social practice. Often material practice  such as those associated with scientific
instruments and other apparatus  is ignored with instruments understood as inscription devices
conduits for language rather than sources of material culture in which scientists share
material other than words (Baird  2004  p. 7) when they communicate new knowledge and
realities. While we do not ignore the role of language in science  we agree with Barad (2003)
that perhaps language has too much power and with that power there seems a concomitant loss of
interest in exploring how matter and machines (instruments) contribute to both ontology and
epistemology in science and science education.

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