Unveils a developing area of study within science education

Brings together research from science education, psychology, sociology and anthropology.

Provides a state-of-the-art collection of leading current research

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Understanding and contextualizing the field of science identity research (Heidi B. Carlone).- Part 2. Student Science Identities outside and inside school.- Chapter 2. "My Love For It Just Wasn't Enough to Get Me Through": A Longitudinal Case Study of Factors Supporting and Denying Black British Working-Class Young Women's Science Identities and Trajectories (Louise Archer).- Chapter 3. "It was always about relationships and it was awesome": Girls performing gender and identity in an out-of-school-time science conversation club (Allison Gonsalves).- Chapter 4. Young women's identity work in relation to physics at the transition from school to further educational pathways (Thorid Rabe).- Chapter 5. Student identity, aspiration and the exchange-value of physics (Billy Wong).- Part 3. Student science identities in higher education.- Chapter 6. Science talent and unlimited devotion: An investigation of the dynamics of university students' scienceidentities through the lens of gendered conceptualisations of talent (Henriette Tolstrup Holmegaard).- Chapter 7. Doing geoscience: negotiations of science identity among university students when learning in the field (Lene Møller Madsen).- Chapter 8. Identity perspectives in research on university physics education - what is the problem represented to be? (Anders Johansson).- Part 4. Science teachers' identities and practices.- Chapter 9. Exploring the Connections Between Student-Teacher-Administration Science Identities in Urban Settings (Rachel Askew).- Chapter 10. Science Teacher Identity Work in Colonized and Racialized Spaces (Gale Seiler).- Chapter 11. Understanding Science Teacher Identity Development within the Figured Worlds of Schools (Gail Richmond).- Chapter 12. Identities in Action: Opportunities and Risks of Identity Work in Community & Citizen Science (Colin G. Dixon).- Part 5. Multi-layered methodological approaches to science identities.- Chapter 13. Using QualitativeMetasynthesis to Understand the Factors that Contribute to Science Identity Development Across Contexts in Secondary and Post-Secondary Students from Underrepresented Groups (Sylvia M. James Butterfield).- Chapter 14. Representing STEM identities as pragmatic configurations (Ruurd Taconis).- Chapter 15. How Activity Frames Shape Situated Identity Negotiation: Theoretical and Practical Insights from an Informal Engineering Education Program (Smirla Ramos-Montañez).- Part 6. Conclusion.- Chapter 16. Working towards Justice: Critical Next Steps in Identity Studies in Science Education (Angela Calabrese Barton).