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Book SynopsisThis open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science education—the way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratories—is ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity.
Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: Kinship, Magic, and the Unthinkable
2. "Trees Don't Sing!... Eagle Feather Has No Power!" Be Wary of the Potential Numbing Effects of School Science3. Tracing a Black Hole: Probing Cosmic Darkness in Anthropocenic Times4. The Waring Worlds of H.G. Wells: The Entangled Histories of Education, Sociobiology, Post-Genomics, and Science Fiction5. Creating Magical Research: Writing for a Felt Reality in a More-Than-Human World6. Fire as Unruly Kin: Curriculum Silences and Human ResponsesPart II: Decolonizing Anthropocene(s)7. Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity through Thinking with Kim Tallbear8. Decolonizing Healing through Indigenous Ways of Knowing9. Still Joy: A Call for Wonder(ing) in Science Education as Anti-Racist Vibrant Life-Living10. The Salt of the Earth (Inspired by Cherokee Creation Story)Part III: Politics and Political Reverberations11. The Science of Data, Data Science: Perversions and Possibilities in the Anthropocene through a Spatial Justice Lens12. Science and Environment Education in the Times of the Anthropocene: Some Reflections from India13. Rethinking Historical Approaches for Science Education in the Anthropocene14. Reflections on Teaching and Learning Chemistry through Youth Participatory SciencePart IV: Science Education for a World-Yet-To-Come15. Learning from Flint: How Matter Imposes Itself in the Anthropocene and What That Means for Education16. Resurrecting Science Education by Re-Inserting Women, Nature, and Complexity17. Watchmen, Scientific Imaginaries, and the Capitalocene: The Media and Their Messages for Science Educators18. Curricular Experiments for Peace in Colombia: Re-imagining Science Education in Post-Conflict SocietiesPart V: Complicated Conversations19. A Feral Atlas for the Anthropocene: An Interview with Anna L. Tsing20. In Conversation with Fikile Nxumalo: Refiguring Onto-Epistemic Attunements for Im/possible Science Pedagogies21. In Conversation with Vicki Kirby: Deconstruction, Critique, and Human Exceptionalism in the Anthropocene22. Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Hayward23. Conclusion - Another Complicated Conversation
