Underrepresented minority (URM) students are subjected to historically rooted inequities
when pursuing an education, especially in STEM disciplines with little diversity. In order to …

Two school strikers− Niamh and Harriet− come together with two environmental education
academics− Peta and Joseph− to explore what it means to be young people enacting …

Educational psychologists have largely taken an individual approach, while those in other
fields, including learning sciences and literacy studies, have attempted a more …

An analysis of institutional data to understand the outcome of obstacles faced by students
from historically disadvantaged backgrounds is important in order to work toward promoting …

This paper aims to analyse the concepts of scientific literacy and agency in two official
documents of the Chilean science curriculum. We used Fairclough's three dimensional …

Eliciting, noticing, and responding to students' sense-making is important for advancing
students' understanding and fostering meaningful participation in science. By sense-making …

In this paper, we examine traditional psychosocial approaches to the study of student
agency in science education, emphasizing the importance of incorporating sociocultural and …

Calls to immerse students in the sensemaking practices of science recommend that students
propose ideas and work together to construct explanations as well as drive the evaluation …

In dialogue with science education and learning sciences research, in this article we
develop a disciplinary‐specific view on youth and community agency for community‐based …

In this article I will examine some of the issues raised by the following three articles in this
special issue about Paulo Freire and science education: Jenny Tilsen's “The freshness of …