Place-based expertise and science knowledge shape civic action

January 1st, 2014 | RESEARCH

Through a critical ethnography, Birmingham and Calabrese Barton examined why and how a group of six middle school girls took civic action, defined as “educated action in science,” after studying green energy in an afterschool science program. The paper follows the students’ process in planning and implementing a carnival to engage their community in energy conservation and efficiency issues.

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Melissa Ballard, Author, Afterschool Alliance

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Audience: Educators | Teachers | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | Education and learning science | Engineering | General STEM | History | policy | law | Physics | Technology
Resource Type: Research Brief | Research Products
Environment Type: Afterschool Programs | Public Programs