Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies

• Main Author: Weaver, John A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Studies of Education ; 8
• Subjects: Science education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; International education .; Comparative education.; Science Education.; Curriculum Studies.; International and Comparative Education.

In this book John A. Weaver suggests curriculum studies scholars need to engage more in science matters. It offers a review of science studies writing from Ludwick Fleck and Thomas Kuhn to Philip Mirowski. The volume includes chapters on the rhetoric of science with a focus on the history of rhetori...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One Introduction: Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies: Why (Not) Science Matters?
• Chapter Two From Kuhn to the Economics of Science: Curriculum Studies and Science Studies
• Chapter Three Homo Economicus, Rhetoric, and Curriculum Studies
• Chapter Four Observing Economics: The Rhetoric of Data, Models, and Statistics
• Chapter Five The Economics of Science, Neoliberal thought, and the Loss of Democracy
• Chapter Six (Post)Colonial Science
• Chapter Seven Working Our Way Back: Colonial Science in light of Postcolonial Thought
• Chapter Eight Of Hierarchies, Cultures of no Culture, Ontology, Protocols, and Anecdotes: (Re-Writing)
• Chapter Nine Nietzsche's Science.