Imagining Science Education Through Ethnographies of Neoliberal Resistance. (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weinstein, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Mind, culture, and activity. Volume 23:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 237
• Page End: 246
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Cognition -- Periodicals; Cognition and culture -- Periodicals; 150
• DOI: 10.1080/10749039.2016.1201843
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1074-9039

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article describes translation of research on resistance against neoliberalism into the curriculum of a science teacher certification program. It examines the way that the discourse of STEM reorganizes science as a neoliberal project. It summarizes the author's ethnographic work on street medicine, i.e., the medical practices developed to support patients in states of emergency and, centrally, protesters at counter neoliberal/corporate globalization protests as a technoscientific counter-neoliberal practice. Finally, it describes how this analysis of STEM and ethnographic work informs our teacher education work, resulting in a program we call STEAMD: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Democracy.