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Sreyashi Jhumki Basu: Building a more equitable world through science education

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Dr. Sreyashi Jhumki Basu was a scholar committed to equity and social justice in science education who passed away in December 2008. In this essay, I describe Jhumki’s research and the call to action her life’s work has laid out for the science education community. In particular, I draw attention to the role of critical science agency in learning and the democratic science pedagogy model that Jhumki developed to support students in crafting such agency.

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  • Basu, S. J. (2008). How students design and enact physics lessons: Five immigrant Caribbean youth and the cultivation of student voice. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 45, 881–899. doi: 10.1002/tea.20257.

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Barton, A.C. Sreyashi Jhumki Basu: Building a more equitable world through science education. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 4, 393–397 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-009-9179-4

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