Material Practice and Materiality: Too Long Ignored in Science Education

by Milne, Catherine Scantlebury, Kathryn

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Full title :Material Practice and Materiality: Too Long Ignored in Science Education / edited by Catherine Milne, Kathryn Scantlebury.

Summary

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. .

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (VIII, 252 pages) : : 69 illus.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030019747, 3030019748
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-01974-7
oclc:on1102091517
LC Classification:LC8-6691
Dewey Decimal:507.1

Introduction: Bringing Matter into Science Education, Kathryn Scantlebury & Catherine Milne -- Different Perspectives on Materials -- Thinking about practices differently: Why materials matter, Catherine Milne -- The materiality of materials and artefacts used in science classrooms, Kathrin Otrel-Cass & Browen Cowie -- How Spacetimemattering Engages Science Education with Matter, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anna Danielsson, Anita Hussenius, Kristina Andersson, & Annica Gullberg -- The Ethical, Political Potential of New Materialisms For Science Education, Shakhnoza Kayumova & Jesse Bazzul -- Curriculum Matters -- Positing an(other) ontology: Towards different practices of ethical accountability within multicultural science education, Marc Higgins -- Intra-actions that matter: building for practice in a Liberal Arts science course, Catherine Milne -- How does matter matter in preschool science? Sofie Areljung -- Classroom Matters -- New materialisms and science classrooms: diagramming ontologies and critical assemblies, Jesse Bazzul, Sara Tolbert & Shakhnoza Kayumova -- Agency, materiality, and relations in intra-action in a kindergarten science investigation, Jana Maria Haus & Christina …