On the "Yellowing Phase": What We Can Learn About Science Practices From Professional Coffee Roasters

• In Event: Analyzing Youths' and Teachers' Science Practices as a Vital Part of Learning and Instruction

Abstract

Images of science influence what we count as science, how we believe it is conducted, and what and how we teach. This paper advances an image of science conducted not within professional laboratories, but rather an everyday workplace: a neighborhood coffee roastery. Through participant observation and microethnographic analyses we develop and analyze a vignette of coffee roasters in action and situate their work within the “practice turn” of science education. This vignette portrays an embodied way of knowing that coffee roasters use as part of their broader repertoire of practices. We show that these practices bear family resemblance to those elevated by the Science and Engineering Practices of the Next Generation Science Standards and discuss their implications for science education.

Authors

• Bradley Davey, Northwestern University
  Presenting Author

• Reed Stevens, Northwestern University
  Non-Presenting Author