Science, democracy, and curriculum studies. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John A. Weaver.
• Authors: Weaver, John A
• Contents: Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies: Why (Not) Science Matters?; 1.1 Vignette One: The General Economy of Anything Creative; 1.2 Vignette Two: The Arts; 1.3 Vignette Three: Philosophy; 1.4 Vignette Four: Anthropology; 1.5 Vignette Five: Curriculum Studies?; References; Chapter 2: From Kuhn to the Economics of Science: Curriculum Studies and Science Studies; 2.1 A Kuhnian Revolution Without Kuhn; 2.2 An Anthropologist Studies Modernity and the Objects It Creates; 2.3 In Search of Epistemic Things; 2.4 Institutionalizing Science 2.5 Comparative Literature Comes to Science Studies2.6 The Return of the Macro-Level; 2.7 Of Perspectivalism, Modest Witnesses, and Strong Objectivity; 2.8 What Is an Economics of Science?; References; Part I: Interlude One: The Fault of Noreen Garman; References; Chapter 3: Homo Economicus, Rhetoric, and Curriculum Studies; 3.1 The Art of Rhetoric; 3.2 Rhetoric as a Mode of Inquiry; 3.3 The Rhetoric of Science; 3.4 The Rhetoric of Economics; 3.5 Mirowskian Rhetoric; References; Chapter 4: Observing Economics: The Rhetoric of Data, Models, and Statistics; 4.1 Observing and Seeing 4.2 The Rhetoric of Data4.3 Data as Archive; 4.4 Modeling Rhetoric; 4.5 Statistical Rhetoric; References; Part II: Interlude Two: (Still) Mourning Joe; Chapter 5: The Economics of Science, Neoliberal Thought, and the Loss of Democracy; 5.1 The Neoliberal Thought Collective; 5.1.1 Decoupling Science from Democracy; 5.2 The Angst of Autonomy; 5.3 Becoming an Expert; References; Part III: Interlude Three: Ghosts in the Resistance and Bones in the Soil; References; Chapter 6: (Post)Colonial Science; 6.1 Saundra Harding and Strong Objectivity: Science from Below 6.2 Paul Gilroy, Science, Race, and Nationalism6.3 Sylvia Wynter, the Poetics of Science, and the Rise of Man3; References; Chapter 7: Working Our Way Back: Colonial Science in Light of Postcolonial Thought; 7.1 Locality and Colonial Botany; 7.2 Bioprospecting, Agnotology, and Raciology; 7.3 The Mythoi of and the Studying Up on Rice; 7.4 On Atlantocentrism and Postcolonial Thought; References; Part IV: Interlude Four: Getting Lost and Finding Mary; References; Chapter 8: Of Hierarchies, Cultures of No Culture, Ontology, Protocols, and Anecdotes: (Re-writing) Women and Science 8.1 Traweek's Anthropology8.2 Karen Barad and a New Ontology of Science; 8.3 Despret's Anecdotes and Other Non-human Animals; 8.4 Women Who Make a Fuss!; References; Part V: Interlude Five. Dear David: An Open Letter to a Science Educator; Chapter 9: Nietzsche's Science; 9.1 Aphorisms on a Nietzschean Science; References
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 370.1; Education; Education -- Philosophy; Education -- Social aspects; Science_xStudy and teaching; Curriculum planning; EDUCATION / Essays; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions; EDUCATION / Reference; Education -- Curricula; Education -- Comparative; Curriculum planning & development; Education; Science -- Study & Teaching; Teaching of a specific subject; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319938400; 3319938401
• Related ISBNs: 9783319938394; 3319938398
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2018)
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