Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene

Belcher, Oliver; Schmidt, Jeremy J.

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“…One conference paper (Cobern, 1993) considered Arendt's theory in science education, covering the diversity of metaphysical assumptions in science class. Further, several articles from the humanities consider Arendt's thoughts on science (e.g., Belcher & Schmidt, 2021; Crease, 2017; Yaqoob, 2014) but without connection to science education. The potential of her thought for equity in science education seems unstudied.…”

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A review of science teaching approaches for equity focusing on race, class, and religion from the perspectives of Freire's and Arendt's theories of education

Rüschenpöhler

2024

Science Education

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This paper presents a literature review of science teaching approaches that seek to support equity in science classrooms, focusing on marginalization based on (i) race/ethnicity, (ii) social class/socioeconomic background, and (iii) religion. Considered were approaches that science teachers can use in science classes in secondary schools. They were analyzed and discussed against the backdrop of critical pedagogy by Paulo Freire and the educational theory by Hannah Arendt, which constitutes a novelty in science education research. The review used meta interpretation combined with systematic searches in the ERIC database. It is, thus, limited to works published in English. A total of 930 articles (2013–2021) were identified out of which 64 were fully analyzed. The analysis shows that most approaches strive to provide more equal access to the existing science knowledge and structures of the community. This corresponds to the introduction to the “old world” in a conservative interpretation of Arendt's term. I argue that in addition, it is necessary to employ a more radical interpretation of the “old world” as fundamentally plural which is done in translanguaging and grappling with racism. Further, the transformative nature of science education needs to be strengthened in terms of Freire's critical pedagogy and Arendt's concept of natality. This means allowing students to become aware of oppressive structures to induce change. Only youth participatory science, youth participatory action research, and grappling with racism explicitly aim for this. This shows that nuanced perspectives on equity in science education are needed.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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A review of science teaching approaches for equity focusing on race, class, and religion from the perspectives of Freire's and Arendt's theories of education

Rüschenpöhler

2024

Science Education

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“…Furthermore, the conversion of tribal people has had greater ramifications on the relationship between the ethnic groups and their relationship with nature (Nukshirenla & Vulli, 2019;Angom, 2020;Ormsby, 2013;Joy, 2014). In the present Anthropocene epoch, the alienation of humanity from nature has accelerated climate change and global warming (Belcher & Schmidt, 2020). Tribal practices around the world exemplify how to live within bounds by respecting the world of nature.…”

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Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages

Biswas

2023

SACI

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Northeast India, home to diverse ethnic communities, has often been described as the cauldron of ethnic violence and insurgencies. The ongoing crisis in Manipur (in the form of a fratricidal war between the Meiteis and Kukis) and the State’s failure to contain it calls for deeper scrutiny of the geopolitics of the region. Whereas the region was once a crossroad that facilitated the movement of these ethnic groups, its transformation into a frontier area during colonial times and as a borderland after India’s partition turned it into a contested space. Further, with the introduction of colonial modernity, the old socio-cultural and economic structures have radically altered the relationship among the communities giving space to necropolitics. In this context, by referring to Rituparna Bhattacharyya’s edited volume Northeast India through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History and other research works, this commentary maps the transformation of the territory into a necrospace. In doing so, this study argues that while much of the complications had been foisted due to the colonial map-making process and immigration, an ethnic resurgence had further facilitated the growth of necropolitics in the region. Additionally, the study will focus on the representations of socio-cultural history and politics by relating those to the multifaceted aspect of necropolitics and its entangled colonial history.

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“…From the various narratives, we saw that there are many developments in the study of the Anthropocene, with its peculiarities. Belcher and Schmidt (2021) have recently signaled that industrialism, colonialism, wars, threatening technologies, genocides, slavery, nuclear power, and capitalism itself are articulated differently, but often related to the inequalities of social conditions that lead to planetary forcing.…”

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Interweaving the Sciences: the transdisciplinarization of the Anthropocene

Júnior

2023

Educ. Real.

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The Anthropocene has been considered a geological period of high risk due to the indiscriminate use of natural resources and the lifestyle assumed by the world population, to the detriment of ecosystem conservation. The set of problems requires a transdisciplinary scientific approach due to its complexity. But despite considerable advances, the anthropocene model is still considered controversial by the social sciences and humanities. The article brings the transdisciplinary approach as a methodological and epistemological tool to improve the connections between natural and human sciences in a new perspective to face realities (non-resistance zones) that underpin anthropocene transdisciplinarization.

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Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene

Cited by 9 publications

References 66 publications

A review of science teaching approaches for equity focusing on race, class, and religion from the perspectives of Freire's and Arendt's theories of education

A review of science teaching approaches for equity focusing on race, class, and religion from the perspectives of Freire's and Arendt's theories of education

Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages

Interweaving the Sciences: the transdisciplinarization of the Anthropocene

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