STS pedagogies

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
Reading: 30 Percent Chance

This reading, "'A 30% Chance of Rain Tomorrow': How Does the Public
Understand ProbabilisticWeather Forecasts?" by Gigerenzer et al. (2005), is included as part of a teaching artifact by Eric Kennedy.Read more

The Digital State Syllabus Spring 21 - Douglas-Jones

RD: This Digital Innovation and Management course uses ethnographic studies and theoretical frameworks from Anthropology, STS and Organisational studies to examine the new responsibilities, obligations and of state actors as they implement IT systems. It asks how public bodies use and store data...Read more

Humility in critical STS pedagogies

One theme that came across to me in the two sessions from today -- "Teaching and Thinking With Disabilities" and "We Are Screwing Up and Sticking With It" -- was the reflexivity and humility involved in practicing critical STS pedagogies. Disciplinary humility, epistemic humility, pedagogical...Read more
Feminist Theory Theater Workbook

This workbook is the companion to our article for the ESTS thematic collection on Critical Pedagogy, titled "Feminist Theory Theater: Acts of Reading as Embodied Pedagogy". It is meant to be downloaded and printed, and is already formatted to print as a double-sided booklet. [Note: If you...Read more

Context: Purpose, Normative Criticality at the Grad Level

This document provides context for the "Social Text Editorial Board" assignment that is part of the Introduction to Science and Technology graduate class taught by Sonja Schmid and Matthew Wisnioski.Read more

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