NDLI: Learning about a fish from an ANT: actor network theory and science education in the postgenomic era

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Author	Pierce, Clayton
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This article uses actor network theory (ANT) to develop a more appropriate model of scientific literacy for students, teachers, and citizens in a society increasingly populated with biotechnological and bioscientific nonhumans. In so doing, I take the recent debate surrounding the first genetically engineered animal food product under review by the FDA, AquaBounty Technologies’ AquAdvantage$^{®}$ salmon, as a vehicle for exploring the ways in which the biosciences have fundamentally altered the boundary between nature and culture and thus the way the public understands both. In response to the new challenges of a postgenomic society, I outline three frameworks for using ANT literacies in classroom settings. Each frame, I argue, is foundational to the development of a scientific literacy that can trace and map actors involved in controversies such as the AquAdvantage$^{®}$ salmon. In examining these frames I follow the actor of a salmon through an environmental history lens, the technoscientific literacy operating in AquaBounty’s FDA application and the National Academies new science education framework, and finally to a model of democracy rooted in an ethic of the common. The ultimate claim of this article is that until science education (and education in general) can begin to include nonhumans such as the AquAdvantage$^{®}$ salmon as part of a common political framework, students, educators, and community members will continue to be at the mercy of experts and corporate stakeholders for defining the terms in which people heal, feed, and educate themselves now and in the future.
Starting Page	83
Ending Page	107
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18711502
Journal	Cultural Studies of Science Education
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18711510
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-08-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Actor network theory Scientific literacy Biopolitics biocapital Democratic theory Science Education Sociology of Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cultural Studies

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