Improving urban science education: new roles for teachers, students, and researchers

Introduction / Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky and Gale Seiler

1. who, what, where, and how of our urban ethnographic research / Gale Seiler and Rowhea Elmesky

2. Urban science as a culturally and socially adaptive practice / Kenneth Tobin

3. Painting the landscape : urban schools and urban classrooms / Gale Seiler and Lacie Butler

4. Organizational mediation of urban science / Wolff-Michael Roth

5. Playin on the streets - solidarity in the classroom : weak cultural boundaries and the implications for urban science education / Rowhea Elmesky

6. All my life I been po' : oral fluency as a resource for science teaching and learning / Gale Seiler

7. Becoming an urban science teacher : the first three years / Jennifer Beers

8. role of cogenerative dialogue in learning to teach and transforming learning environments / Sarah-Kate LaVan and Jennifer Beers

9. Learning science and the centrality of student participation / Cristobal Carambo

10. Female sexuality as agency and oppression in urban science classrooms / Melissa Sterba

11. Meeting the needs and adapting to the capital of a queen mother and an ol' head : gender equity in urban high school science / Kathryn Scantlebury

12. Paperclips + polymers [actual symbol not reproducible] problems : learning to use levels of representation in a high school chemistry classroom / Tracey Otieno and Catherine Milne

13. autobiographical approach to becoming a science teacher in an urban high school / Sonya N. Martin

14. Beyond either-or : reconsidering resources in terms of structures / Sarah-Kate LaVan

15. My cultural awakening in the classroom / Linda Loman

16. Social and cultural capital in science teaching : relating practice and reflection / Stacy Olitsky

17. Transforming the future while learning from the past / Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky and Gale Seiler.