Science, learning, identity : : sociocultural and cultural-historical perspectives / / edited by Wolff-Michael Roth, Kenneth Tobin.

• Superior document: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-; Tobin, Kenneth George, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes index.

Over the recent years, identity has become one of the most central theoretical concept and topics of scholarship in a number of disciplines, including science education. In this volume, leading science educators articulate in carefully prepared case studies their theoretical perspective on science, learning, and identity. More importantly, the authors of the chapters that in the different parts of the book engage each other in a collaboratively written chapter concerning some of the central issues that have arisen from their individual studies; and in particular they engage each other over the similarities and differences between their approaches. This book, which features detailed case studies of identity as both resource and outcomes of learners in a variety of settings, will be of interest to anyone concerned with learning science in and out-of schools. The book also caters for readers who have wondered about how identity mediates science learning and, simultaneously, how engagement in science-related tasks and activities mediates the emergence and development of identities. The general tenor of all chapters is a cultural-historical and sociocultural framework that is brought to issues of identity, thereby inherently transcending the individual person and linking identity to cultural possibilities.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Aporias of Identity in Science / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Identity in Urban Science / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Tell Me What Your Life Like ... / Kenneth Tobin -- Identity, Interaction Ritual, and Students’ Strategic Use of Science Language / Stacy Olitsky -- Learning and Becoming across Time and Space / Jrène Rahm -- Urban Science Education / Kenneth Tobin , Jrène Rahm , Stacy Olitsky and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Gendered Identities / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Learning to be Engineers / Karen L. Tonso -- Outsiders Within / Kathryn Scantlebury -- Gendered Identities / Karen Tonso , Kathryn Scantlebury , Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Identity as Dialectic / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- Identity in Scientific Literacy / Wolff-Michael Roth -- Dis/Continuity of Identity / SungWon Hwang and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Identity in Activities / Maria Varelas , Christine C. Pappas , Eli Tucker-Raymond , Amy Arsenault , Tamara Ciesla , Justine Kane , Sofia Kokkino and Jo E. Siuda -- Activity, Agency, Passivity / Wolff-Michael Roth , Maria Varelas , SungWon Hwang and Ken Tobin -- Discursive Constructions of Identity / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- A Beautiful Life in Science / Yew-Jin Lee -- When Clarity and Style Meet Substance / Bryan A. Brown and Gregory J. Kelly -- Constructing Critical Science and Social Identities in a Girls’ and a Boys’ Summer Science Book Club / Nancy W. Brickhouse and Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue -- Discursive Constructions of Identity / Yew-Jin Lee , Bryan Brown , Nancy Brickhouse , Pamela Lottero-Perdue , Kenneth Tobin and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Identity in Science / Kenneth Tobin and Wolff-Michael Roth -- Index / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin -- By the same authors / Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin.