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Videos by Doris B Ash
A talk delivered at the ESERA 2021 virtual conference Aug 30-Sept 3, 2021 Conference title Fos... more A talk delivered at the ESERA 2021 virtual conference
Aug 30-Sept 3, 2021
Conference title
Fostering scientific citizenship in an uncertain world
Using real world examples to ground theory in practice
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Papers by Doris B Ash
Science Education
In this study, we explore how preservice secondary science teachers articulated their agency and ... more In this study, we explore how preservice secondary science teachers articulated their agency and structural awareness within racist–nativist policy and schooling environments that limit emergent bilingual students' opportunities to learn science. Our praxis‐oriented analysis led us to characterize novice teacher participants' discursive positionings within this structure–agency dialectic—that is, what it means to teach science well with emergent bilingual learners in the context of structural exclusions—as deficit, distancing, or discerning. We then discuss how these preservice teacher positionings were a function of tension management for working within the structure–agency dialectic. In our discussion, we refer to this phenomenon as praxis crisis, that is, the disjuncture between theory and practice that occurs as teachers negotiate the real and perceived constraints of their work. We consider how the concept of praxis crisis that emerged from our work can be a critical di...
The journal of college science teaching, 2009
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2014
This chapter focuses on recognizing humor as a powerful resource for visitors from culturally and... more This chapter focuses on recognizing humor as a powerful resource for visitors from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are new to learning contexts, such as museums and aquariums. By using humor, visitors negotiate hybrid learning spaces, as well as gain authority in informal settings. Humor… serves a number of functions—social cohesion or rupture, the cementing of relationships… persuasion through the distraction of entertainment, and the simultaneous challenge and reinforcement of the status quo. (Moreau & Enahoro, 2012, p. 1)
The Reflective Museum Practitioner, 2019
The Reflective Museum Practitioner, 2019
The Reflective Museum Practitioner, 2019
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
Addiction Biology, 2001
ABSTRACT
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many confli... more Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place? Using a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing historically bound conflicts that plague museums, each chapter is organized around a central contradiction, including finances ("Who will pay for museums?"), demographic shifts ("Who will come to museums?"), the roles of narratives ("Whose story is it?"), ownership of objects ("Who owns the artifact?"), and learning and teaching ("What is learning and how can we teach equitably?"). The reculturing stance taken by Ash promotes social justice and equity, 'making change' first, within museums, called inreach, rather than outside the museum, called outreach; challenges existing norms; is sensitive to neoliberal and deficit ideologies; and pays attention to the structure agency dialectic. Reculturing Museums will be essential reading for academics, students, museum practitioners, educational researchers, and others who care about museums and want to ensure that all people have equal access to the activities, objects, and ideas residing in them.
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums, 2022
A talk delivered at the ESERA 2021 virtual conference Aug 30-Sept 3, 2021 Conference title Fos... more A talk delivered at the ESERA 2021 virtual conference
Aug 30-Sept 3, 2021
Conference title
Fostering scientific citizenship in an uncertain world
Using real world examples to ground theory in practice
24 views
Science Education
In this study, we explore how preservice secondary science teachers articulated their agency and ... more In this study, we explore how preservice secondary science teachers articulated their agency and structural awareness within racist–nativist policy and schooling environments that limit emergent bilingual students' opportunities to learn science. Our praxis‐oriented analysis led us to characterize novice teacher participants' discursive positionings within this structure–agency dialectic—that is, what it means to teach science well with emergent bilingual learners in the context of structural exclusions—as deficit, distancing, or discerning. We then discuss how these preservice teacher positionings were a function of tension management for working within the structure–agency dialectic. In our discussion, we refer to this phenomenon as praxis crisis, that is, the disjuncture between theory and practice that occurs as teachers negotiate the real and perceived constraints of their work. We consider how the concept of praxis crisis that emerged from our work can be a critical di...
The journal of college science teaching, 2009
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 2014
This chapter focuses on recognizing humor as a powerful resource for visitors from culturally and... more This chapter focuses on recognizing humor as a powerful resource for visitors from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are new to learning contexts, such as museums and aquariums. By using humor, visitors negotiate hybrid learning spaces, as well as gain authority in informal settings. Humor… serves a number of functions—social cohesion or rupture, the cementing of relationships… persuasion through the distraction of entertainment, and the simultaneous challenge and reinforcement of the status quo. (Moreau & Enahoro, 2012, p. 1)
The Reflective Museum Practitioner, 2019
The Reflective Museum Practitioner, 2019
The Reflective Museum Practitioner, 2019
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
Addiction Biology, 2001
ABSTRACT
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many confli... more Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place? Using a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing historically bound conflicts that plague museums, each chapter is organized around a central contradiction, including finances ("Who will pay for museums?"), demographic shifts ("Who will come to museums?"), the roles of narratives ("Whose story is it?"), ownership of objects ("Who owns the artifact?"), and learning and teaching ("What is learning and how can we teach equitably?"). The reculturing stance taken by Ash promotes social justice and equity, 'making change' first, within museums, called inreach, rather than outside the museum, called outreach; challenges existing norms; is sensitive to neoliberal and deficit ideologies; and pays attention to the structure agency dialectic. Reculturing Museums will be essential reading for academics, students, museum practitioners, educational researchers, and others who care about museums and want to ensure that all people have equal access to the activities, objects, and ideas residing in them.
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Reculturing Museums, 2022
Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, 2018
This chapter addresses the role of conflict in understanding dioramas containing cultural represe... more This chapter addresses the role of conflict in understanding dioramas containing cultural representations, especially models or re-creations of indigenous cultures and actual people created for natural history museums. We use three specific examples of such conflict: African-Americans, South African Bushmen and Native Americans. The three cultural conflict examples used here stem from dioramas or depictions that have already been contested, modified, and/or removed. These examples are taken from different peoples of various cultures, languages, and social systems, but who share the experience of having their cultural realities misrepresented.
RECULTURING MUSEUMS: EMBRACE CONFLICT, CREATE CHANGE, 2022
Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many confli... more Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see when old systems remain stubbornly in place? Using a unified sociocultural, cultural-historical, activity-theoretical approach to analyzing historically bound conflicts that plague museums, each chapter is organized around a central contradiction, including finances ("Who will pay for museums?"), demographic shifts ("Who will come to museums?"), the roles of narratives ("Whose story is it?"), ownership of objects ("Who owns the artifact?"), and learning and teaching ("What is learning and how can we teach equitably?").
The reculturing stance taken by Ash promotes social justice and equity, 'making change' first, within museums, called inreach, rather than outside the museum, called outreach; challenges existing norms; is sensitive to neoliberal and deficit ideologies; and pays attention to the structure agency dialectic. Reculturing Museums will be essential reading for academics, students, museum practitioners, educational researchers, and others who care about museums and want to ensure that all people have equal access to the activities, objects, and ideas residing in them.