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Habitus, social fields, and circuits in rural science education
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Habitus, social fields, and circuits in rural science education

Carol B. Brandt, Wesley Shumar, Lorie Hammond, Heidi Carlone, Sue Kimmel and Christina Tschida
Cultural studies of science education, v 5(2), pp 477-493
01 Jun 2010

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Cultural Studies Education & Educational Research Social Sciences
Schooling and science education are embedded within larger socio-cultural, political and economic contexts, influenced by global flows of capital, labor, ideas, and images. In this article we consider the ways in which ethnography traces the web of interactions (circuits), in a rural community and the ways that science inquiry was associated with character education. Our discussion examines the relationship between social fields, habitus, and meritocracy under new and ever-changing neoliberal conditions. These macro-level forces play out in everyday practices in the community and reveal schools, as well as science education, as sites for struggle.

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