This course explores science and school science studies from a sociocultural perspective.
Topics draw from scholarship in the sociology, philosophy, and discourse of science.
Among the central topics for discussion will be the social context of disciplinary knowledge, problems of experimentation, ideological bias in research, the discourse of school science, multicultural issues in science, and knowledge access issues. Language, learning and values . Experiment, science teaching, and the new history and sociology of science. Sociology of science as a means to a more authentic, inclusive science education. Another look at its historical and contemporary meanings and its relationship to science education reform.