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Afterword: Science Education and Promises of Aesthetics, Emotion and Wellbeing

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Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research

Part of the book series: Cultural Studies of Science Education ((CSSE,volume 13))

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If science education is so complex, then how should we sense it, know it, feel it and perform it? If we are to escape our Cartesian blinkers, we need to teach ourselves new ways of thinking, of feeling, of sensing and relating in science education. Drawing on affect theory and personal experiences, this chapter offers a series of reflections on the edited collection. I explore some of the promises, possibilities and politics of aesthetics, emotion and wellbeing in science education. My earlier discussions read chapters as invitations to different political possibilities and actions in science education pedagogy. My later sections discuss how the assembled arguments raise fundamental questions for empirical and scholarly practices. I conclude highlighting different approaches to theorise aesthetics, emotions and wellbeing, as well as some of the limitations and tensions associated with studies of this genre.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Alberto Bellocchi

  2. Department of Teaching and Learning College of Education, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA

    Cassie Quigley

  3. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Kathrin Otrel-Cass

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Alsop, S. (2017). Afterword: Science Education and Promises of Aesthetics, Emotion and Wellbeing. In: Bellocchi, A., Quigley, C., Otrel-Cass, K. (eds) Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research. Cultural Studies of Science Education, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43353-0_14

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