Table of Contents

Part I. PREAMBLE.- 1 FOREWORD: The Significance of STEPWISE for Fostering Life-long Sociopolitical Activism, Derek Hodson.- 2 INTRODUCTION: STEPWISE — A Framework Prioritizing Altruistic Actions to Address Socioscientific Issues, Larry Bencze.- Part II. DOCUMENTARIES.- 3 School Science Ruling Relations and Resistance to Activism in Early Secondary School Science, Darren Hoeg, Tanya Williamson & Larry Bencze.- 4 Activating Students’ Conceptions and Positions on STSE Issues in Preparation for Socio-political Activism, Varsha Patel.- 5 Both Sides Now: Exploring the Art of Persuasion to Enhance Actions Within a STEPWISE Framework, Angeliki Grundy.- 6 Learning about Youth Engagement in Research-informed and Negotiated Actions on Socio-scientific Issues, Mirjan Krstovic.- 7 Students’ Social Studies Influences on Their Socioscientific Actions, Larry Bencze and Mirjan Krstovic.- 8 Epistemic Contributions to Students’ Autonomous Socioscientific Actions, Larry Bencze and Mirjan Krstovic.- 9Students’ Uses of Actor Network Theory to Contextualize Socioscientific Actions, Larry Bencze and Mirjan Krstovic.- 10 Science Students’ Ethical Technology Designs as Solutions to Socio-scientific Problems, Larry Bencze and Mirjan Krstovic.- 11 Resisting the Borg: Science Teaching for Common Wellbeing, Larry Bencze and Mirjan Krstovic.- 12 Giving Meaning to STSE Issues Through Student-Led Action Research: An Actor-Network Theory Account of STEPWISE in Action, Neil T. Ramjewan, Brandon Zoras and Larry Bencze.- 13 Students’ Socioscientific Actions: Using And Gaining ‘Street Smarts’, Christina Phillips-MacNeil, Mirjan Krstovic and Larry Bencze.- 14 Tensions on Promoting Social Justice Through STEPWISE Pedagogies in an International Baccalaureate Preparatory Class, Neil T. Ramjewan, Brandon Zoras and Larry Bencze.- 15 ‘In The Eye of The Hurricane’: Using STEPWISE to Address Urgent Socio-Political Issues in Venezuela, Majd Zouda, Tomo Nishizawa and Larry Bencze.- 16 Science for Citizenship:Using Prezi™ for Education about Critical Socio-scientific Issues, Darren Hoeg, Alexander DiGiacomo, Sarah El Halwany, Mirjan Kirstovic, Christina Philips-McNeil, Minja Milanovic, Tomo Nishizawa, Majd Zouda and Larry Bencze.- 17 Battle of the Bands: Toxic Dust, Active Citizenship and Science Education, Larry Bencze and Chantal Pouliot.- 18 Supporting Pre-service Teachers to Teach for Citizenship in the Context of STSE Issues, Sarah El Halwany, Majd Zouda, Chantal Pouliot and Larry Bencze.- 19 Teaching Girls to Fish?: A Case of Co-curricular Food Justice Education Program for Youth, Erin Sperling and Larry Bencze.- Part III. COMMENTARIES.- 20 Actor Network Theory and STEPWISE: A Case Study on Learning About Food Justice with Plants, Clayton Pierce.- 21 Rebuilding Community Spaces: Integrating Resilience into STEPWISE, Cassie Quigley.- 22 Socio-scientific Issue-based Learning: Taking Off From STEPWISE, Ralph Levinson and The PARRISE Consortium.- 23 “Preach or teach?”: An Ongoing Journeyto Becoming STEPWISE, Mellita Jones.- 24 “I had to take action straight away.”  Preservice Teachers’ Accounts of Pro-environmental Action, Lyn Carter and Jenny Martin.- 25 Science Education for a Better World? Reflections on Embodiment, Language and Sensitive Action, Laura Colucci-Gray.- 26 WISE Preservice Teachers Discussing Social and Economic Disparities During a Discussion Game Dealing with Nanotechnologies, Audrey Groleau and Chantal Pouliot.- 27 STEPWISE as a Vehicle for Scientific and Political Educ-action? Laurence Simonneaux and Jean Simonneaux.- 28 Understanding Opportunities and Contradictions in the Grammars of Activism and Schooling, Matthew Weinstein.- 29 In Which Ways Can (Science) Education Promote the Well-being of Individuals, Societies and Environments? Isabel Martins.- 30 ‘STEPPING’ Toward a Critical-activist Science Education: Dialoguing Subjectivity, Social Ontology and Multiplicities, Jessie Bazzul and Shakhnoza Kayumova.- 31 Countering the Neoliberal Ontology of Nature: The STEPWISE Option, Ajay Sharma.- 32 STEPWISE: A Societal-historical Activity (Activism) Theoretical Perspective, Wolff-Michael Roth.- Part IV. AFTERWORD.- 33 Critical and Activist Science Education: Envisaging an Ecojust Future, Larry Bencze.- AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES.- INDEX.