Ethics and Science Education

In: SpringerBriefs in Education Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Science Education as a Site of Struggle -- Abstract -- Introduction -- References -- 2 The Constitution of Subjectivities: Discourse, Practices, and Repetition -- Abstract -- The Importance of Althusser, Butler, and Foucault's Work -- Subjectivity and the Discourses of Biology Textbooks -- Methodology for Analyzing Science Curriculum/Textbooks -- Some Directions for Critical Analysis -- Intersections of Sex/Gender and Sexuality and Race -- Neocolonialisms: The Colonizer and the Colonized -- Constituting Depoliticized Neoliberal Subjectivities -- The "Ethical Subject" of Science Education -- Resistances and Reformulations -- References -- 3 The Ethical Subject of Science Education -- Abstract -- Ethics and Science Education -- Ethics in the Science Education Literature -- Ethics, Textbooks, and Curriculum -- Continuing with a Foucauldian Methodology -- What Quali es as an "Ethical Question or Exercise" in These Texts? -- Analysis of Ethical Questions and Exercises in Biology Texts -- Contextualizing Ethical Themes in Textbooks: Governance, Populations, and Lifestyle -- Government Regulation and Policy Recommendation -- Health and Populations -- The Individual and Lifestyle Choices -- Thinking About Relations to Self -- Toward Di erent Approaches to Ethics in Science Education -- Biotechnology, Medical Research, and New Considerations for Life -- Politicizing Questions of Environmental Destruction -- References -- 4 Science Education and Subjectivity in (Bio)Political Context -- Abstract -- Biopower and Biopolitics -- Two Modernities -- Biopolitics and Science Education -- Colonization and the Power to Make Die -- Neoliberalisms -- The Regulatory and Disciplinary Poles of Sex/Gender and Sexuality -- Biotechnology and Biosubjects -- A Biopolitical Context as an Ethico-Political Frame -- References.