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Some recent papers and chapters:

Blades, David (2012). Why most students don’t choose STEM careers. PolicyMatters, Nov. 9, 2012 published at: .

Blades, David W. (2012). Power and socioscientific issues: The pedagogy of Mire’s critique of skin whitening cosmeceuticals. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education 12 (3), 292-301.

Blades D. and Brookes, K. (2011). Dot to Dots in the sky: Encouraging multiculturalism and creativity in science education through constellations. Accelerator 34 (2), 23-26 (referred, national).

Blades, David (2012). Foucault, authority and the possibility of curriculum reform in secondary school science education. In B. L. Spencer, K. Gariepy, K. Dehli (Eds.), Canadian education: Governing practices & producing subjects (pp. 23-35). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing.

Blades, D. (2011). Re-viewing the war in Afghanistan: A curriculum journey of a “good Canadian.” In H. Smits and R. Naqvi (Eds.), Thinking about and enacting curriculum in “Frames of War” (pp. 21-37). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing.

Blades, D. (2011). Time and teacher control in curriculum adoption: Lessons from the Lighthouse School Project. In L. D. Yore, E. Van der Flier-Keller, D. W. Blades, T. W. Pelton, & D. B. Zandvliet (Eds.), Pacific CRYSTAL centre for science, mathematics, and technology literacy: Lessons learned (pp. 203-215). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.

Blades, David. (2009). Serah’s song: Lessons for dancing with history and culture in curriculum studies. In J. Nahachewsky & I. Johnston (Eds.), Beyond ‘presentisim’” Re-imagining the historical, personal, and social places of curriculum (pp. 1-9). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Blades, D. (2008). Positive growth: Developments in the philosophy of science education. Curriculum Inquiry 38 (4): 387-400 (referred, international).

Blades, D. & Richardson, G. (2006). Re-starting the interrupted discourse of the public good: Global citizenship education as moral imperative. In D. Blades & G. Richardson (Eds.), Troubling the canon of citizenship education (pp. 115-123). New York: Peter Lang.

Books:

Yore, L. D., Van der Flier-Keller, E., Blades, D. W., Pelton, T. W., & Zandvliet, D. B. (Eds.). (2011). Pacific CRYSTAL centre for science, mathematics, and technology literacy: Lessons learned. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing.

Richardson, G. H. and Blades, D. (2009). Troubling the canon of citizenship education (Chinese publication; Z. G. J. de Zhunze, Trans.) Beijing: Educational Science Publishing.

Richardson, G. H. & Blades, D. W. (2006). Troubling the canon of citizenship education. New York: Peter Lang.

Blades, David; Johnston, Ingrid & Simmt, Elaine (2000). Cultural diversity and secondary school curricula. Ottawa: Canada Race Relations Foundation.

Blades, David W. (1997). Procedures of power and curriculum change: Foucault and the quest for change in science education. New York: Peter Lang.

Recent presented papers:

Kim, M., Anthony, R., & Blades, D. (2012). Argumentation as a tool to understand complexity of knowledge integration. Paper presented at the 2nd International STEM in Education conference, Nov 24-28, Beijing, China (presented on Nov. 26).

Blades, D., van der Flier-Keller, E., Milford, T., Alpert, S. (2012). The EOS (Earth and Ocean Sciences) 120/Education project: Improving science teacher education through faculty partnerships. Poster presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, B.C., April 14. (main author)

Hammond-Todd, M. and Blades, D. (2012). The sustainability and the curriculum of endangered species. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, January 11. (co-author)

Blades, David and Sen, Göksenin (2011). Re-sculpting vulnerability in physics education: From suffering to elegance. Presentation to the 5th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Conference, University of Alberta, October 22 (referred).