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The interplay between structure and agency in the enactment of STEM policy

Authors: Isabel Martins, Francine Pinhão, Rita Vilanova

Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education | Issue 4/2017

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In their paper, Hoeg and Bencze argue that current STEM curriculum guidelines prioritise the training of a workforce in detriment of a democratically grounded education for citizenship. We agree that there is an insufficient questioning about which type of citizenship STEM curricula would favour and wish to contribute to this debate by (1) problematising different meanings and aspects of citizenship in different models of democracy and (2) exploring the dialectical nature of structure and agency in the discursive construction of educational (policy) discourse. We also discuss results from recent empirical research about teachers’ ideas on citizenship education in order to challenge views that assume a linearity between educational policy and its enactment.

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Title: The interplay between structure and agency in the enactment of STEM policy
Authors: Isabel Martins
Francine Pinhão
Rita Vilanova
Publication date: 16-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education / Issue 4/2017
Print ISSN: 1871-1502
Electronic ISSN: 1871-1510
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-017-9837-x

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