This is the final version of the collaboratively-built program for the NSF funded "STS as a Critical Pedagogy" workshop, hosted virtually in the summer of 2021.
The workshop was originally scheduled to take place in person over two days in the summer of 2019. Delayed due to Covid-19, and...Read more
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
This is a syllabus for DSIS Studio I, taught by Raquel Velho at RPI in Fall 2020.Read more
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 McCullock, David Turnbull and Penny Williams. There are four courses included...Read more
This artifact sets up the Social Text Editorial Board exercise that is part of the Introduction to Science and Technology Studies graduate course taught by Sonja Schmid and Matthew Wisnioski.Read more
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
This assignment is referenced in the "We Are All Screwing Up and Sticking With It" panel in the STS as a Critical Pedagogy workshop, June 23, 2021. See a HS2020 video on YouTube.Read more
This reading, "Misinterpretations of the 'Cone of Uncertainty' in Florida
during the 2004 Hurricane Season," BY KENNETH BROAD, ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ, JESSICA WEINKLE, AND MARISSA STEKETEE, is included here by Eric Kennedy as part of a teaching artifact.Read more
Throughout this semester, we will focus on the search for knowledge about the natural world, from antiquity to today. In order to successfully participate in this course, you must first forget everything you think you know about science, how it has developed, and what it means to you today. We...Read more
This document provides the assignment description and link to student work associated with the Social Text Editorial Board exercise that is part of the Introduction to Science and Technology Studies graduate course taught by Sonja Schmid and Matthew Wisnioski.Read more
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.
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.
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