[Review of] Saima Salehjee and Mike Watts, Becoming Scientific: Developing Science across the Life-Course
One of my publications is
Taber, K. S. (2022). Being and Becoming 'Sciencey'. [Review of] Saima Salehjee and Mike Watts, Becoming Scientific: Developing Science across the Life-Course. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 12(2), 299-306. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.1480
This article is open-access (the journal is sponsored through the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana).
"Salehjee and Watts explore how different people relate to, engage with, and feel about aspects of science – even when those people themselves may not be primarily framing this engagement as a 'science' interest or activity
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Through the book, Salehjee and Watts build up a "theoretical model of science identify: Sci-ID" (p. 59), considering how individuals are influenced by a combination of societal, community and personal factors. They draw upon various theoretical considerations and a good deal of data.
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Salehjee and Watts have brought together a great deal of testimony from a diverse group of people of different ages, inside and well outside formal education, illustrating just how variously people relate to and engage with (or sometimes disregard) science."
The article can be accessed at the Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal website
