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Specifying a curriculum for biopolitical critical literacy in science teacher education: exploring roles for science fiction

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In this essay I suggest some ways in which science teacher educators in Western neoliberal economies might facilitate learners’ development of a critical literacy concerning the social and cultural changes… Click to show full abstract

In this essay I suggest some ways in which science teacher educators in Western neoliberal economies might facilitate learners’ development of a critical literacy concerning the social and cultural changes signified by the concept of biopolitics. I consider how such a biopolitically inflected critical literacy might find expression in a science teacher education curriculum and suggest a number of ways of materializing such a curriculum in specific literatures, media, procedures, and assessment tasks, with particular reference to the contributions of science fiction in popular media.

Keywords: science; critical literacy; science teacher; education

Journal Title: Cultural Studies of Science Education
Year Published: 2017

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