Noticing and Futuring for Equity: Transformative Commitments in Justice-Oriented Science Education

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Abstract

In this presentation, I examine the intersection of noticing for equity and futuring for equity (Winn, 2025) as transformative lenses for advancing justice-oriented science education. Grounded in the (w)holistic Science Pedagogy (Patterson & Gray, 2019), I conceptualize love as a professional and pedagogical commitment to collective betterment—a framework through which teachers engage in self-transformation alongside their students. I draw upon classroom-based research that attends to the emotional dimensions of science learning and the ways teachers’ awareness of students’ experiences can disrupt persistent inequities. Ultimately, I argue that integrating noticing and futuring for equity provides an avenue for educators to imagine and enact more humanizing, restorative, and socially responsive forms of science teaching and learning.

Author

• Alexis Patterson Williams, University of California - Davis