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Chemicals are contaminants too: Teaching appreciation and critique of science in the era of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Science Education ( IF 6.000 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-30 , DOI: 10.1002/sce.21546
Daniel Morales‐Doyle 1 , Tiffany Childress Price 1 , Mindy J. Chappell 1
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This article examines the tensions that arose as teachers, scientists, youth, and community organizers worked to develop a curriculum that was responsive to community concerns and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Within the context of urban heavy metal contamination and building on previous critiques of the standards, we identified how the ideological commitments of the NGSS hinder their applicability to community issues. We examine latent ideological commitments in the performance expectations (PEs) and disciplinary core ideas as they relate to historical and present causes and consequences of urban heavy metal contamination. Whereas the scientific enterprise and chemical industry produce harms and benefits, the NGSS focus on benefits and ignore that both harms and benefits of science are unevenly distributed. Given the pressure on teachers to implement the NGSS, this paper presents examples from collaborative curriculum development efforts that meet PEs while pushing students to ask critical questions and engage with their communities to challenge the standards’ alignment with the chemical industry. Ultimately, we argue that the NGSS position teachers as promoters of the status quo of the scientific enterprise and we document possibilities for the role of science teachers in US schools that are more transformative.

中文翻译:

化学物质也是污染物:下一代科学标准(NGSS)时代的教学鉴赏和科学批评

本文探讨了教师,科学家,青年和社区组织者在努力开发能够响应社区关注和下一代科学标准(NGSS)的课程时出现的紧张关系。在城市重金属污染的背景下,并以先前对标准的批评为基础,我们确定了NGSS的意识形态承诺如何阻碍它们对社区问题的适用性。我们考察了绩效期望(PE)和学科核心思想中潜在的意识形态承诺,因为它们与城市重金属污染的历史和当前成因和后果相关。尽管科学企业和化学工业产生危害和利益,但是NGSS专注于收益,却忽略了科学的危害和利益分布不均。鉴于教师实施NGSS的压力,本文提供了合作课程开发工作的示例,这些工作满足了PE的要求,同时促使学生提出关键问题并与他们的社区互动,挑战标准与化工行业的一致性。最终,我们认为NGSS将教师定位为科学事业现状的推动者,并且我们记录了在更具变革性的美国学校中,科学老师的作用的可能性。
更新日期:2019-08-30
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