13 Questions: Reframing Education’s Conversation: Science examines thirteen critical questions confronting contemporary science education and a dynamic and evolving universe threatened by issues of sustainability and disharmony. The world’s leading scholars in science education utilize cutting-edge theories and analyses to illuminate possible pathways in a world threatened by global warming, mass extinctions, and pervasive conflicts. These provocative responses to some of the most difficult questions facing science education to date are intended to provoke, expand, and enlighten readers about possibilities for transforming and enhancing the social and physical worlds we inhabit and for which we are stewards. The sections of 13 Questions address science curriculum; power and science education; quality of science teachers; quality of science students; quality of science teacher education; equity; language; religion; race; families; culture of science and science education; political issues and science education; and bold visions for science education. The book is international in scope and shows value for difference in the perspectives, values, and theoretical underpinnings of authors.

Table of Contents:
Shirley R. Steinberg: Foreword: We Must Kill Our Darlings – Lynn A. Bryan/Kenneth Tobin: Of Eggs, Chickens, and Deep-Seated Ideologies – Section One: The Science Curriculum: What Are the Basics and Are We Teaching Them? – Christina Siry: The Science Curriculum at the Elementary Level: What Are the Basics and Are We Teaching Them? – Femi S. Otulaja/Meshach B. Ogunniyi: The Science Curriculum: What Are the Basics and Are We Teaching Them? – Anna Stetsenko: Science Education and Transformative Activist Stance: Activism as a Quest for Becoming via Authentic-Authorial Contribution to Communal Practices – Section Two: Power and Science Education: Who Decides the Forms Science Education Has Taken and Who Should Decide? – Sara Tolbert/Angela Calabrese Barton/Luis C. Moll: What Can Teachers Do to Restructure Power Dynamics in Science Classrooms? Exploring the Personal and Social Transformative Power of Science Learning through a Funds of Knowledge Approach – Larry Bencze/Michael J. Reiss/Ajay Sharma/Matthew Weinstein: STEM Education as “Trojan Horse”: Deconstructed and Reinvented for All – Section Three: Science Teachers Under Suspicion: Is It True That Science Teachers Aren’t as Good as They Used to Be? – Shakhnoza Kayumova/Deborah J. Tippins: Obsessed with Accountability? Science Teachers Under the Microscope – Giuliano Reis: En Route to Becoming a “Good” Teacher: An Attempted Hijack of Pedagogical Autonomy? – Section Four: Science Students Under Suspicion: Is It True That Students Are Less Interested in Science Than They Used to Be and Perform More Poorly in Science Than They Used to? – Tang Wee Teo: Problematizing “Problematic” Students in Lower Track Classes – Sonya N. Martin: Confronting Prevailing Narratives of Student Engagement and Participation in Science Classrooms – Section Five: Science Teacher Education: What Is Good Science Teaching and How Do We Teach People to Be Good Science Teachers? – Maurício Pietrocola: Professional Duties and Challenges of Novice Teachers: Level of Consciousness in Facing the Pedagogical Risk – Aik-Ling Tan: Science Teacher Professional Development: The Blind Men and the Elephant – Section Six: (In)Equity and Science Education: In What Ways Does (In)equity Affect the Process of Science Education? – Flavia Rezende/Fernanda Ostermann: Science Education and Social Inequality: Reproduction or Confrontation? – Maria Varelas: Dialectical Relationships and How They Shape (In)Equitable Science Learning Spaces and Places – Maxine McKinney de Royston/Abiola A. Farinde: Race and Poverty in Science Education: Questions and Tensions for the Field – Ana M. Becerra: Dismantling Racism as a Strategy for Academic Success – Castano Rodriguez/Laura Barraza: In What Ways Does Race Affect the Educational Process? Challenging the Homogenization of Academia – Kathryn Scantlebury: “Where Is the …?”: Using Intersectionality to Problematize Power and Hierarchy in Science Teaching and Learning – Section Seven: Language and Science Education: In What Ways Does Language Affect the Process of Science Education? – Sara E. D. Wilmes/Christina Siry/Roberto Gómez Fernández/Anna Maria Gorges: Reconstructing Science Education within the Language | Science Relationship: Reflections from Multilingual Contexts – Purita P. Bilbao/Deborah J. Tippins/Sophia (Sun Kyung) Jeong: The Tension of Maintaining Language Diversity versus Extinction: Mother Tongue as a Filipino Response – Cory Buxton/Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso/Yu Xia/Jiong Li: How Perspectives from Linguistically Diverse Classrooms Can Help All Students Unlock the Language of Science – Section Eight: Religion and Science Education: In What Ways Does Religion Affect the Process of Science Education? – Michael J. Reiss: Why a Chapter on Religion in a Book on Science Education? – Nidhal Guessoum: Religion in Science Classes: Heresy or Constructive Pedagogy? – Section Nine: Families and Science Education: What Is the Role of Families in the Process of Science Education? – Martha Allexsaht-Snider: Exploring Families’ Roles in Science Learning: From El Bosque in Veracruz, México to the Southeastern U.S. – Leanne M. Avery: From Opening Portals to Creating New Pathways – Section Ten: Culture of Science and Science Education: In What Way Does the Culture of Science and Images of Science Affect the Process of Science Education? – Anita Hussénius: Forming Bonds—Breaking Bonds – Cassie F. Quigley and S. Megan Che: On the Need to Engage in Constructive, Productive, Scientific Discourses on Highly Controversial and Emotionally Charged Topics – Section Eleven: Science Education Reform: What Have Been the Goals and the Effects of the Attempts to Improve Science Education Over the Last Decade? – Rowhea Elmesky: Science Education Reform: Can Students Learn Science While Navigating Oppressive Schools within an Oppressive Society? – Lucy Avraamidou/Lynn A. Bryan: Science Education Reform: Reflecting on the Past and Raising Questions for the Future – Section Twelve: Science Education as a Political Issue: What’s Missing in the Public Conversation About Science Education? – David E. Long: Rethinking Science Education in Light of Motivated Reasoning – Lyn Carter/Carolina Castano Rodriguez/Mellita Jones: Sociopolitical Activism and Transformative Learning: Expanding the Discourse About What Counts in Science Education – Section Thirteen: Science Education Visions: What Is School Science for and What Should We Be Doing in the Name of Science Education? – Elisabeth (Lily) Taylor/Peter Charles Taylor: Breaking Down Enlightenment Silos: From STEM to ST2EAM Education, and Beyond – Lee Beavington/Heesoon Bai: Science Education in the Key of Gentle Empiricism – Isabel Martínez-Cuenca/Autumn Joy Florêncio-Wain/Alandeom W. Oliveira: When Holism Meets Democratization: Re-centering Science Classrooms to Support Students’ Feelings of Agency and Connectedness – Contributor Biographies – Subject Index – Names Index.