Contributor
Tobin, Kenneth George, 1944-
Imprint:Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
Descriptionxvi, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The research in this book is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. REC-0107022." - Acknowledgments
Note:Introduction / Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, Gale Seiler -- 1. The who, what, where, and how of our urban ethnographic research / Gale Seiler, Rowhea Elmesky -- 2. Urban science as a culturally and socially adaptive practice / Kenneth Tobin -- 3. Painting the landscape: urban schools and urban classrooms / Gale Seiler, Lacie Butler -- 4. Organizational mediation of urban science / Wolff-Michael Roth -- 5. Playin on the streets--solidarity in the classroom: weak cultural boundaries and the implications for urban science education / Rowhea Elmesky -- 6. All my life I been po': oral fluency as a resource for science teaching and learning / Gale Seiler -- 7. Becoming an urban science teacher: the first three years / Jennifer Beers -- 8. The role of cogenerative dialogue in learning to teach and transforming learning environments / Sarah-Kate LaVan, Jennifer Beers -- 9. Learning science and the centrality of student participation / Cristobal Carambo -- 10. Female sexuality as agency and oppression in urban science classrooms / Melissa Sterba -- 11. Meeting the needs and adapting to the capital of a Queen Mother and an Ol' Head: gender equity in urban high school science / Kathryn Scantlebury -- 12. Paperclips + polymers --> problems: learning to use Levels of Representation in a high school chemistry classroom / Tracey Otieno, Catherine Milne -- 13. An autobiographical approach to becoming a science teacher in an urban high school / Sonya N. Martin -- 14. Beyond either-or: reconsidering resources in terms of structures / Sarah-Kate LaVan -- 15. My cultural awakening in the classroom / Linda Loman -- 16. Social and cultural capital in science teaching: relating practice and reflection / Stacy Olitsky -- 17. Transforming the future while learning from the past / Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, Gale Seiler.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"This volume is a systematic attempt to document what we have learned from seven years of research on the teaching and learning of science in the urban high schools of Philadelphia. - Introd.
