In this Article, Koshi Dhingra offers an essay review of four studies around the themes of identity and globalization. Questions about the goals of science education spaces, the nature of globalization in relation to
practices in schools, the role of identities-in-practice in relation to participation in communities of practice such as classrooms are explored. Recommendations for key design features in effective science educational spaces, based upon the findings presented in the collection of four studies, are offered. School, it is suggested here, functions best as a clearing house for the myriad science-related stories student participants generate in their various communities of practice (e.g., within popular culture, family, community, informal educational sites). In this way, Dhingra aruges, school has the potential to construct bridges between multiple student experiences and identities-in-practice..

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