Scientific Literacy and the Ontology of Science Education: A Case Study of Learning in the Outdoors

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dc.contributor.advisorRosiek, Jerry
dc.contributor.authorGleason, Tristan
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T18:54:37Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T18:54:37Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation seeks to articulate a framework for critiquing and reconstructing science education by fleshing out the relationships between science education, its ontological commitments to nature, and educational practices that promote justice and democracy. Drawing on theoretical and methodological resources from American Pragmatism and science studies, I offer a case study that evokes the practices of a residential outdoor science program in the Pacific Northwest. I suggest that these practices provide an opportunity to imagine how science education emerges differently when it abandons its commitments to a singular and authoritative Nature, and explore how this program provides empirical resources for building a theory of science education that is multinatural. Grasping the plurality of nature diminishes the tension between experiences and the world, recognizing the importance of the sciences to democratic action without positioning them as a singular source of authority. Multinaturalism then becomes an orienting concept for imagining and reconstructing more democratic and just practices of science education, practices that move away from the transmission of a cannon of white, Eurocentric knowledge, and towards the navigation of problems in dynamic worlds.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20538
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectMultinaturalismen_US
dc.subjectPragmatismen_US
dc.subjectQualitativeen_US
dc.subjectScience studiesen_US
dc.subjectSocial justiceen_US
dc.titleScientific Literacy and the Ontology of Science Education: A Case Study of Learning in the Outdoors
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Education Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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