Toward solidarity as the ground for changing science education |
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| Authors: | Wolff-Michael Roth |
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| Institution: | (1) Curriculum and Instruction, Department of (EDCD), University of Victoria, Room A548, MacLaurin Building (MAC), Victoria, Canada |
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| Abstract: | In science education, reform frequently is conceived and implemented in a top-down fashion, whether teachers are required
to engage in change by their principals or superintendents (through high-stakes testing and accountability measures) or by
researchers, who inform teachers about alternatives they ought to implement. In this position paper on science education policy, I draw on first philosophy to argue for a different approach to reform, one that involves all stakeholders—teachers, interns,
school and university supervisors, and, above all, students—who participate in efforts to understand and change their everyday
praxis of teaching and learning. Once all stakeholders experience control over the shaping and changing of classroom learning
(i.e., experience agency), they may recognize that they really are in it together, that is, they experience a sense of solidarity.
Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, science teaching examples, and philosophical concepts, I outline how more democratic approaches
to reform can be enabled. |
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