Re/Structuring Science Education

1. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS

1. ReUniting Sociological and Psychological Perspectives in/for Science Education An Introduction
Wolff-Michael Roth

2. Tuning in to Others’ Voices: Beyond the Hegemony of Mono-logical Narratives
Kenneth Tobin

3. Activity, Discourse, & Meaning Some Directions for Science Education
Gregory J. Kelly, Asli Sezen

4. Been There, Done That, or Have We?
Yew-Jin Lee

5. History, Culture, Emergence Informing Learning Designs
Donna DeGennaro

6. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants A Balancing Act of Dialectically Theorizing Conceptual Understanding on the Grounds of Vygotsky’s Project
Anna Stetsenko

7. A Sociological Response to Stetsenko
Regina Smardon

8. Turbulence, Risk, and Radical Listening A Context for Teaching and Learning Science
Wesley Pitts

9. Thinking and Speaking: A Dynamic Approach
Wolff-Michael Roth

10. Thinking and Speaking: On Units of Analysis and Its Role in Meaning Making
Eduardo F. Mortimer

11. Thinking Dialogically About Thought and Language
Pei-Ling Hsu

2. POSITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES

12. How Does She Know? Re-visioning Conceptual Change from Feminist Research Perspectives
Kathryn Scantlebury, Sonya Martin

13. Conceptions and Characterization: An Explanation for the Theory-Practice Gap in Conceptual Change Theory
Michiel Eijck

14. Looking at the Observer: Challenges to the Study of Conceptions and Conceptual Change
Jean-François Maheux, Wolff-Michael Roth, Jennifer Thom

15. It Doesn’t Matter What You Think, This is Real: Expanding Conceptions About Urban Students in Science Classrooms
Christopher Emdin

16. Making Science Relevant: Conceptual Change and the Politics of Science Education
Giuliano Reis

3. SCIENCE AGENCY ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN

17. Glocalizing Artifact, Agency and Activity An Argument for the Practical Relevance of Economic Injustice and Transformation in the Science Education of Mexican Newcomers
Katherine Richardson Bruna

18. Concept Development in Urban Classroom Spaces: Dialectical Relationships, Power, and Identity
Maria Varelas, Justine M. Kane, Christine C. Pappas

19. Science as Context and Tool: The Role of Place in Science Learning Among Urban Middle School Youth
Edna Tan, Angela Calabrese Barton, Miyoun Lim

20. Becoming an Urban Science Teacher: Teacher Learning as the Collective Performance of Conceptions
Maria S. Rivera Maulucci

21. Science Agency and Structure Across the Lifespan: A Dialogical Response
Jennifer D. Adams, Christina Siry, Koshi Dhingra, Gillian U. Bayne

4. EPILOGUE

22. Sociology | Psychology |… Toward a Science of Phenomena
Wolff-Michael Roth

Keywords: Education, Science Education, Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education