Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

The edited volume "Re-Visioning Science Education in the Era of the Anthropocene" calls for a re-orientation of science education to address the problems and complexities of the Anthropocene, highlighting the need to move away from myopic knowledge systems and rigid state education directives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 375 pages
Publication date: 08 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This 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, knowledge, 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.

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, knowledge, 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.

Weight: 606g
Dimension: 161 x 234 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030796242
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022