STS pedagogies

DSIS Studio I Syllabus

This is a syllabus for DSIS Studio I, taught by Raquel Velho at RPI in Fall 2020.Read more

DISSERTATION PROJECT v. 2021

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Coloring Outside The Lines: Archive Cover

How does STEM pedagogy become key to envisioning new societal futures? 

My dissertation research examines how California’s educational and professional futures are being transformed by an array of programs and policies that refocus STEM pedagogy to meet the personal, community, and local needs of students and their environments. STEM educators today are advocating for innovative curricula that center students’ understandings of the world; hiring and training educators from underserved communities in STEM; and expanding STEM learning and teaching to out-of-school environments such as science centers, museums and community education. This study examines the array of ways K-12 STEM educators and administrators are enacting “next-generation” STEM pedagogy, working across state, non-profit, and corporate sectors. 

By examining the pedagogical ideals, aspirations, subjectivities, tactics, and working environments of STEM educators, this project underscores the critical role of pedagogy and its practitioners in the production, reproduction and circulation of scientific knowledge.

Woke Math

What is at stake in next-generation STEM education?

California Department of Education draft plan to revise the K-12 Mathematics Framework to make social justice issues central to how math is taught in middle and high schools met with resistance from several fronts, including 600 scientists and educators who have signed an open letter asking it to be withdrawn. It further emphasizes integrated tracks in middle schools to close the racial achievement gap and progression along with acceleration. Critics of the plan argue that math education should not "woke", pointing instead to other industrialized nations, especially in East Asia, from where students outperform American students in math. Meanwhile, educators continue to state that STEM education cannot remain apolitical in the wake of pandemics and protests. 

STS Critical Pedagogies Workshop - STS Labs and Clinics - Your Classroom, Your Lab?

How can your classroom also be a space for modeling a "laboratory" or lab practices?

  • How can the " space " of your pedagogy or classroom be leveraged in a way that enacts a "laboratory"?
  • What is the " institution " where you
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Making the Invisible Visible Group Presentation Slides

This slides accompanied the group presentation for the Making the Invisible Visible panel with Ellie Amstrong, Shelby Dietz, Sharlissa Moore, Ellan Spero, and Aubrey Wigner. This was part of the STS as a Critical Pedagogy Workshop, summer 2021.Read more

Science Worlds: An Integrated Approach to Social Studies of Science Teaching

This paper describes the content, approach and rationale of the courses in social studies of science taught at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria from the 1980s-1990s.Read more

Science and Society Curricula and Course Materials

These teaching materials were developed for the course 'Science in Culture' at Deakin University. They were published between 1985-1990. The course team included Barry Butcher, David Wade Chambers, Struan Jacobs, Jack McCulloch, David Turnbull and Penny Williams. There are four courses included...Read more

Strategic use of boundary objects

The " Making the Case for Ourselves: Boundary Objects in Critical STS Pedagogies" panel raised an important and provocative question: "What kinds of boundary objects do you use to make a case for yourself as an STS educator?" The answers our panelists provided ranged from teaching areas ("writing...Read more
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