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Lynette Carter
Researcher at Australian Catholic University
Publications - 5
Citations - 120
Lynette Carter is an academic researcher from Australian Catholic University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Science education & Globalism. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications receiving 101 citations.
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Students’ Research-Informed Socio-scientific Activism: Re/Visions for a Sustainable Future
TL;DR: This article found that teachers encouraged and enabled students to direct open-ended primary and secondary research as sources of motivation and direction for their activist projects, and they concluded, based on constant comparative analyses of qualitative data, that school students' tendencies towards socio-political activism appeared to depend on myriad, possibly interacting, factors.
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Globalisation and science education : Global information culture, post-colonialism and sustainability
TL;DR: The authors further describe the ways in which globalisation shapes and influences science education by outlining the three global discourses of global information culture, sustainability and post-colonialism before moving on to identifying some of their implications which we as science educators can only begin to grapple.
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Globalisation and policy reforms: science education research
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between education and globalisation and found that education is the twin face of universalising and hegemonic economic-political globalism and the fragmented, diverse and opening cultural form.
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Science Education and Contemporary Times: Finding Our Way Through the Challenges
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for science education's engagement with contemporaneity, and for a repositioning of its research directions to better address the theoretical and methodological challenges raised.
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Capitalism, Nature of Science and Science Education: Interrogating and Mitigating Threats to Social Justice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that science and technology fields are interwoven with myriad societal and environmental entities and perhaps more importantly, as key elements of strategic networks of phenomena supporting elite societal members.