Critical Voices in Science Education Research Gebunden

This book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and or science teacher educator with the hope that through solidarity commonality and telling the story justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys. Being a scholar and teacher that sees science education as a space for justice and thinking being different entry into this disciplinary field often comes with tense moments and personal difficulties. The chapter autho rs of this book break into many painful awkward and seemingly nebulous topics including the intersectional nuances of what it means to be a researcher in the contexts of epistemic rigidness white supremacy and neoliberal restructuring. Of course these contexts become different depending on how teachers students and researchers are constituted within them (as racialized sexed gendered disposable valued subjects). We hope that within these narratives readers will identify with similar struggles in terms of what it means to desire to do good in the world while facing subtle and not-so-subtle institutional personal cultural and political challenges.