Developing a sustained interest in science among urban minority youth

By S. J. Basu, Angela Calabrese Barton. 2007

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Correlates of intellectual risk taking in elementary school science (2009, neutral): “Fortunately, recent research examining factors associated with students’ interest in science (Basu & Barton, 2007)and recent modelsof howinterest develops(Hidi & Renninger, 2006;Krapp, 2002, 2005)offer a potential curative for these problematic beliefs.”
Social Problem Solving Through Science: An Approach to Critical, Place-Based, Science Teaching and Learning (2010, background): “However, studies have shown that instruction that pushes students to investigate topics of local relevance, using rigorous inquiry methods, may result in substantive content learning ( Rahm, 2002 ; Warren, Ballenger, Ogonowski, Rosebery, & Hudicourt-Barnes, 2001 ), and that even disenfranchised stu”
The Role of Emotional Factors in Building Public Scientific Literacy and Engagement with Science (2012, background): “females or students from low-income urban communities) perceive science as boring, distant, and inaccessible (Basu & Barton, 2007 ; Bouillion & Gomez, 2001 ).”