A Manifesto for Critical‐Feminist Science Education
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Feminist science education is not a new endeavor but part of a long‐standing intergenerational struggle against exclusion, marginalization, and epistemic violence within science and science education institutions and practices. Despite decades of critical feminist scholarship and activism, science and science education continue to operate through patriarchal, colonial, and neoliberal structures that uphold cisheteronormativity, racism, and ableism, often under the guise of objectivity, neutrality, or equity. This special theme calls for a radical reimagining of science education through feminist praxis that is intersectional, transdisciplinary, and transnational. Drawing on foundational feminist scholars and feminist and critical science education researchers, we center practices grounded in care, collectivity, community, relations, dissensual engagement, and the co‐construction of knowledge that challenges dominant norms. We advocate for science education that foregrounds relational ethics, joy, and critical consciousness, and that supports students and educators in becoming agents of collective social transformation. This theme emerges from a geographically and generationally diverse, interdisciplinary community of feminist scholars committed to confronting the limitations of diversity rhetoric and pushing beyond representational politics. We critique extractive and damage‐based research paradigms and instead invite contributions that make visible “little justices,” resist neoliberal resilience discourses, and imagine feminist kin‐making across borders. We aim to create brave, caring spaces that resist censorship and silencing, especially of scholars whose work engages explicitly with questions of power and oppression. In doing so, we continue the legacy of feminist science education as a field that not only questions how science is taught and by whom, but that redefines what science education can be—politically, pedagogically, and imaginatively. Inspired by bell hook's thoughts, this special theme is an invitation to rethink how we think, teach, write, and speak about science and science education, and to collaboratively construct more just and inclusive futures in and through science.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.024 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".