These original essays offer new perspectives for science educators, curriculum theorists, and cultural critics on science education, French post-structural thought, and the science debates. Included in this book are chapters on the work of Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Jean Baudrillard, plus chapters on postmodern approaches to science education and critiques of modern scientific assumptions in curriculum development. Acknowledgments ix Introduction (Post) Modern Science (Education): Propositions and Alternative Paths 1(22) John A. Weaver Part One Science as Curriculum Theory 23(88) Marla Morris The Object(s) of Culture: Bruno Latour and the Relationship between Science and Culture 25(16) William E. Doll, Jr. France Feng Stephen Petrina Bachelard as Constructivist 41(16) Eva Krugly-Smolska The Simulacra of Science Education 57(38) David W. Blades Serres Bugs the Curriculum 95(16) Marla Morris Part Two Pastiche Science: Bringing Cultural Studies of Science to Education and Education to the Cultural Studies of Science 111(132) Peter Appelbaum Science Education Through Situated Knowledge 129(18) Matthew Weinstein Genre Analysis as a Way of Understanding Pedagogy in Mathematics Education 147(30) Susan Gerofsky A Feminist Revisioning of Infinity: Small Speculations on a Large Subject 177(16) Elaine V. Howes Bill Rosenthal Cookbook Classrooms; Cognitive Capitulation 193(20) Dave Pushkin Modernist Traditions in Supervision and the Illusions of Science and Objectivity 213(30) Jeffrey Glanz Part Three Pedagogies of the Cultural Studies of Science 243(58) John A. Weaver Karen Anijar Teaching in the (Crash) Zone: Manifesting Cultural Studies in Science Education 249(26) Noel Gough Pedagogies of Science (In)formed by Global Perspectives: Encouraging Strong Objectivity in Classrooms 275(26) Annette Gough Contributors 301(4) Index 305