STS as critical pedagogy

Creating STS Spaces and Disciplinary Dialogue Through Teaching

We have found that, for us, successfully doing STS in STEM spaces requires developing the capacity for disciplinary dialogue and creative translation—honoring the intent and values of different disciplinary practices and languages while finding...Read more

Collaborative Multimodal Assignments (PDF)

This is a poster I presented on campus at our annual Teaching and Learning With Technology conference in which I present an experiment in using collaborative multimodal assignments to facilitate engaged STS learning in a STEM context. Students in the class were majoring in Integrated Science and...Read more

Cultivating Interdisciplinary Trading Zones: SEESHOP 2019 Presentation

This presentation was created and delivered by Shannon N. Conley, Emily York, and undergraduate student Sam Kodua at the 2019 Studies of Expertise and Experience (SEESHOP) meeting in Helsinki. Here, we offer preliminary analysis of our Co-Imagining Futures research engagements, examining how...Read more

Connecting Critical Participation and Critical Pedagogy

As described in our NSF proposal , frameworks that inform our thinking about STS as critical pedagogy include critical participation and critical pedagogy. How can we create learning environments that support students’...Read more

The STS Futures Lab: A Space Proposal

In the 2018-19 year, the STS Futures Lab operated in a temporary, shared space. At the end of the academic year, we put together a space proposal articulating our need and justification for a dedicated space. This PDF is the space proposal we submitted. We were subsequently granted a dedicated...Read more

How We're Taught to Teach / Pre-Workshop Memo

Last month I attended a two-session anti-racist pedagogy workshop at my university (Drexel, in Philadelphia, PA, US). It was organized by the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Amelia Hoover-Greene), with Drexel faculty member (Janet MCCloskey) and Neisha-Anne Green from American...Read more
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