A decolonial moment in science education: using a socioscientific issue to explore the coloniality of power

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Carter, Lyn. (2017). A decolonial moment in science education: using a socioscientific issue to explore the coloniality of power. Brazilian Journal of Research in Science Education (RBPEC). 17(3), pp. 1061 - 1085. https://doi.org/10.28976/1984-2686rbpec20171731061
AuthorsCarter, Lyn
Abstract

Decolonialism as a politically engaged endeavour interrogating enduring colonial knowledge production is essential to any discussion of global injustices including those that sociocultural approaches to science education seek to challenge and ameliorate. This paper describes a decolonial moment in my own science teaching to undergraduate primary (elementary) preservice teachers around a socioscientific issue of Ethical Clothing/Fashion. The decolonial moment consists of a semiotically guided reading of some of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood’s promotional photographs for The Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a development project in Kenya. Through this reading, differing social and power relations emerge than probably intended, aimed at unsettling the Eurocentric colonial discourses that many students carry with them into the classroom. The paper concludes with a review of both my own, and the pre-service teachers’ reflections on our learning.

Keywordssocio-scientific issues; decolonialism; ethical fashion; pre-service teacher education
Year2017
JournalBrazilian Journal of Research in Science Education (RBPEC)
Journal citation17 (3), pp. 1061 - 1085
PublisherBrazilian Association of Research in Science Education
ISSN1984-2686
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.28976/1984-2686rbpec20171731061
Page range1061 - 1085
Research GroupSchool of Education
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Place of publicationBrazil
EditorsA. Villani and C. Mattos
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