Teaching science with homeless children: Pedagogy,representation, and identity

In this article, I explore the question of what it means to create a science for all from the vantage point of urban homeless children. I draw on the work of critical and feminist scholars in science and education, as well as my own teaching and research with urban homeless children, to question how inclusive the science education community is in its efforts to understand the margins of science for all. I frame this analysis through the pedagogical questions of representation in science (what science is made to be) and identity in science (who we think we must be to engage in that science). J Res Sci Teach 35: 379–394, 1998.     

The Changing Context of Further Educational Provision: fears and expectations of special needs co‐ordinators

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In this paper we examine how the changing context of further educational provision is influencing the practice of one group of lecturers. These are the ‘special needs’, or ‘learning support’, co‐ordinators, whose responsibilities include supporting students with disabilities or learning difficulties as well as developing skills in staff management and negotiating for resources.     

Researching Telemedicine: Capturing Complex Clinical Interactions with a Simple Interface Design

Telemedicine has been shown to be an effective means of managing follow-up care in chronic diseases such as depression. Exactly why telemedicine calls work, however, remains largely unknown because there are no adequate research tools to describe the complex communicative interactions in these encounters. We report here an ongoing project to investigate the efficacy of telemedicine in depression care, arguing that technical communication specialists have unique contributions to make to this kind of research.     

Assessing Students With Disabilities: Issues and Evidence

Historically, many students with disabilities were excluded from large-scale assessments. Recent federal and state policy initiatives, including the most recent reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, require that the large majority of students with disabilities be included in the statewide assessments used in accountability systems. Although most observers agree that educational outcomes for students with disabilities were inadequate before the new policies were implemented, the research undergirding the new policies is limited. The reforms have spurred a rapid increase in relevant research, but more and improved research is needed. This article reviews the status of research on issues that are central to the new reforms and recommends directions for future research.     

Radio and Television History

ROD SERUNG: THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF LIFE INTHE TWILIGHT ZONE by Joel Engel (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1990—$18.95, ISBN 0-8092-4538-8,368 pp.)

THE PIED PIPERS OF ROCK 'n ROLL: RADIO DEEJAYS OF THE 50s AND 60s by Wes Smith (Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1989—$16.95, ISBN 0-929264-69-X, 300 pp.)

GUNSMOKE.A COMPLETE HISTORY by SuzAnne Barabas and Gabor Barabas (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1990—$45.00, ISBN 0-89950-418-3, 832 pp.) is just that—a detailed narrative and then episode guide to both the radio (1952-61)

THE COMPLETE ACTORS TELEVISIONCREDITS, 1948-1988, VOLUME I: ACTORS by James Robert Parish and Vincent Terrace (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989—$59.50, ISBN 0-8108-2204-0, 560 pp.)

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR: RADIO PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, 1929-1956 by Marilyn Lawrence Boemer (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989—$25.00, ISBN 0-8108-2270-9, 230 pp.)

I REMEMBER TELEVISION: A MEMOIR by Ira Skutch (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989—$29.50, ISBN 0-8108-2271-7, 273 pp.)

LIVE TELEVISION: THE GOLDEN AGEOF1946-1958 IN NEW YORK by Frank Sturcken (McFarland & Co., P.O. Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640—$29.95, ISBN 0-89950-523-6, 178 pp.)     

Should great lakes city build a new power plant? How youth navigate socioscientific issues

There is a growing consensus that simply learning enough science to decipher public debates on socioscientific issues will not make citizens better equipped to handle the complex and ill‐structured problems these controversial issues present. This study highlights the interaction and complex interplay between youth authored and appropriated frames for making sense of socioscientific issues. To do so, we analyze how two middle‐school aged youth, in an after‐school program focused on green energy technologies, made sense of and took a stance on whether their city should build a new hybrid power plant over the course of a 13‐week unit. Using critical sociocultural perspectives on learning and qualitative case study, we examined how the two youth navigated the issue and the resources, scientific and otherwise, they leveraged in defining the problem spaces involved in whether their city should build a new power plant. Our findings indicate that the scientific knowledge youth brought with them and acquired over the course of the investigation influenced how they made sense of the issue, but their knowledge was deeply connected to a range of personal and public discourses that influenced how they defined the issue and why it mattered to them. In particular, it was through how they framed their range of knowledge and experiences that they were able to recognize the multi‐dimensional nature of the problem and propose complex solutions resonant with the science they understood. Our study offers conceptual tools for teaching and learning socioscientific issues. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 49: 541–567, 2012     

Framing equity through a closer examination of critical science agency

Cultural Studies of Science Education - Science for all has been touted as the primary path to equity in science education in the USA. We argue that without attention to the power imbalances that...