I’m sharing another original piece of academic writing for a course I took at Teachers College. As part of this course on gender, difference, and curriculum, we read a diverse set of books, articles on theory, as well as articles of empirical studies. My essay is an integrative one, in which I tried to draw on a wide range of theorists and practitioners to describe how differences are produced via school curricula, ideas of “normal”, and structures/traditions…
Read moreA Curricular Project: Queering Science Education
I’m sharing with you a curricular project titled “Queering Science Education” that I pursued as part of my coursework for a gender, difference and curriculum course at Teachers College. For this project, I am using concepts from Queer Theory to begin to re-imagine and re-conceptualize science education to make it more interdisciplinary, more inclusive, more accessible, and outside the bounds of “standard” or “normal” traditional science education….
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