Reimagining science education in the Anthropocene

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science educationthe way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratoriesis ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity. Maria F.G. Wallace is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. Jesse Bazzul is Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Regina, Canada. Marc Higgins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he is affiliated with the Faculty of Educations Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP). Sara Tolbert is Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.

1. Introduction -- 2. "Trees Don't Sing! ... Eagle Feather Has No Power!" Be Wary of the Potential Numbing Effects of School Science -- 3. Tracing a Black Hole: Probing Cosmic Darkness in Anthropocenic Times -- 4. The Waring Worlds of H.G. Wells: The Entangled Histories of Education, Sociobiology, Post-Genomics, and Science Fiction -- 5. Creating Magical Research: Writing for a Felt Reality in a More-Than-Human World -- 6. Fire as Unruly Kin: Curriculum Silences and Human Responses -- 7. Redrawing Relationalities at the Anthropocene(s): Disrupting and Dismantling the Colonial Logics of Shared Identity through Thinking with Kim Tallbear -- 8. Decolonizing Healing through Indigenous Ways of Knowing -- 9. Still Joy: A Call for Wonder(ing) in Science Education as Anti-Racist Vibrant Life-Living -- 10. The Salt of the Earth (Inspired by Cherokee Creation Story) -- 11. The Science of Data, Data Science: Perversions and Possibilities in the Anthropocene through a Spatial Justice Lens -- 12. Science and Environment Education in the Times of the Anthropocene: Some Reflections from India -- 13. Rethinking Historical Approaches for Science Education in the Anthropocene -- 14. Reflections on Teaching and Learning Chemistry through Youth Participatory Science -- 15. Learning from Flint: How Matter Imposes Itself in the Anthropocene and What That Means for Education -- 16. Resurrecting Science Education by Re-Inserting Women, Nature, and Complexity -- 17. Watchmen, Scientific Imaginaries, and the Capitalocene: The Media and Their Messages for Science Educators -- 18. Curricular Experiments for Peace in Colombia: Re-imagining Science Education in Post-Conflict Societies -- 19. A Feral Atlas for the Anthropocene: An Interview with Anna L. Tsing -- 20. In Conversation with Fikile Nxumalo: Refiguring Onto-Epistemic Attunements for Im/possible Science Pedagogies -- 21. In Conversation with Vicki Kirby: Deconstruction, Critique, and Human Exceptionalism in the Anthropocene -- 22. Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Hayward -- 23. Conclusion -- Another Complicated Conversation.