Activist Science and Technology Education

Acknowledgements.- Foreword.- Contributor List.- Preface.- 1. Activism! Toward a more radical science and technology education, Steve Alsop and Larry Bencze.- Part I: Constituting Theories.- Preamble, Steve Alsop and Larry Bencze.- 2. The elephant in the room: Science education, neoliberalism and resistance, Lyn Carter.- 3. Science education as a site for biopolitical engagement and the reworking of subjectivities, Jesse Bazzul.- 4. A Critical Pedagogy for STEM Education, Arturo Rodriguez.- 5. Becoming part of the solution: Learning about activism, learning through activism, learning from activism, Derek Hodson.- 6. From promoting the techno-sciences to activism: A variety of stakes involved in the teaching of SSIs, Laurence Simonneaux.- 7. Hopeful practices: Activating and enacting the pedagogical and political potential in crisis, Rebecca Houwer.- 8. Using collaborative inquiry to better understand teaching and learning, Ken Tobin.- 9. From knowledge to action?: Re-embedding science learning within the planet's web, Laura Colucci-Gray and Elena Camino.- 10. Education for sustainable contraction as appropriate response to global heating, David Selby.- 11. Learning to let go of sustainability, David Blades and Janet Newbury.- Part II: The Public Sphere.- Preamble, Steve Alsop and Larry Bencze.- 12. Street medicine as a science education for activists, Matthew Weinstein.- 13. Why science education mediates the way we eat, Michael Mueller.- 14. From-within-the-event: A post-constructivist perspective on activism, ethics, and science education, Wolff-Michael Roth.- 15. #OccupyTech, Kate Milberry.- 16. Trajectories of socio-scientific issues in news media: Looking into the future, Michael Bowen.- 17. The perils, politics, and promises of activist science, Bernhard Isopp.- 18. Passive no more, Leo Elshof.- 19. Joining up and scaling up: analyzing resistance to Canada's "dirty oil", Randolph Haluza-DeLay and Angela V. Carter.- Part III: Elementary and Secondary

Professor Steve Alsop and Professor Larry Bencze are internationally recognised authors in science and technology education. They have established records of publication and are leaders in the area of science and technology education and activism. For the past three years, for example, they have been editing the web-based Journal for Activist Science and Technology Education (JASTE) and have recently edited a special edition of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education in this area. Their recent edited books include Analysing Exemplary Science Education (Open University Press) and Beyond Cartesian Dualism (Kluwer).