Science Teacher Education and a Sociopolitical Turn: The Implications for Democratic Citizenship, and Environmental and Social Justice

Abstract

inherently socially negotiated character of meaning and the interested, concerned character of the thought and actions of persons-in-activity. This view also claims that learning, thinking and knowing are relations among people in activity in, with, and arising from the socially and culturally structured world. This world is socially constituted; objective forms and systems of activity, on the one hand, and agents’ subjective and intersubjective understandings of them on the other, mutually constitute both the world and its experienced forms. (p.