Research Projects
Get to know current projects of our group
How do teachers teach science through history when the histories spark potentially heated sociopolitical debates?
This project investigates how K-12 science teachers use the History of Science to connect scientific concepts to pressing sociopolitical issues like climate change and inequality in their classrooms. It explores the real-world experiences and strategies of teachers from multiple countries as they navigate these often controversial topics with students. The core aim is to understand how integrating science’s historical and social dimensions can help educators foster a more critical and socially engaged understanding of science in society.
Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2025-2027)
Team: Cristiano Barbosa de Moura (PI), Jesse Bazzul (Collab.), Rodrigo Lefebvre (RA), Maria Cristina Albuquerque (RA).
Cosmopolitics and Science Education
This project examines how the field of science education has historically engaged with—or resisted—a “cosmopolitical” perspective, which calls for recognizing multiple worlds and ontologies beyond a single scientific worldview. It conducts a historical analysis of key curriculum documents and scholarly literature to trace the field’s paradigm shifts in relation to this idea over the past 70 years. The aim is to understand how this lens could fundamentally reorient science education to better address the complex ethical and planetary challenges of the Anthropocene.
Team: Rodrigo Lefebvre (PhD Student), Cristiano Barbosa de Moura (Supervisor)
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