The study was successful in helping the girls re-figure the world of science in ways that went beyond the mobilization of cultural models tied to school science only. Our study revealed that a meaningful introduction of science into an out-of-school-time (OST) space that values youths' prior experiences seemed to depend on a two-way exchange: re-figuring their experiences as science-experiences and the re-figuring of science to include their every-day experiences. We present an analysis of the kinds of resources and cultural models of science that youth mobilized as they re-figured science together over time, and in a space usually reserved for talk about girls' issues. In this paper, we focus on a qualitative case study of one site. The study is part of a multi-sited ethnography in which we explored youths' engagement with science within three sites.
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J Res Sci TeachGrounded in sociocultural theory, this study explores how the figured world of science is reworked through a series of multi-media activities that were introduced into a girls-only conversation club in an after school program for Teens. We discuss the implications of such a tension for introducing science into OST settings with program goals that extend beyond science learning. We conclude with a discussion of the gap between youth interest driven science experiences and science experiences driven by disciplinary practices detached from the world of youth. Follow-up interviews point to a limited shifting of what counts as “real science” or how the youth consider themselves in relation to science.
Yet, that figuring was also heavily marked by time and space.
Through collage, video production, formal and informal dialogue, youth mobilized resources from youth culture to position themselves as insiders to science and to refigure science to include resources from their everyday experiences.
Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study explores how the figured world of science is reworked through a series of multi-media activities that were introduced into a girls-only conversation club in an after school program for Teens.
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