Toward a Pluriversal Praxis in Science Education

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Abstract

In this presentation, we map key features of western colonial thinking-being to dominant science knowledge and practice, showing how these logics continuously construct youth from non-dominant groups in deficit terms and deny access to meaningful science learning and science identity construction. We then explore what it might mean to construct a pluriversal praxis in science education by embracing an ontoepistemological shift based on relationality, interdependence, embodiment, ethics, and care toward youth, diverse communities, and more-than-human collectives.

Authors

• Shakhnoza Kayumova, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

• Kathryn J. Strom, California State University - East Bay