Critical, Transdisciplinary and Embodied Approaches in STEM Education
Editors: Sengupta, Pratim, Shanahan, Marie-Claire, Kim, Beaumie (Eds.)
Free Preview- Highlights new theoretical, pedagogical and technological advances in STEM education
- Includes comprehensive design guidelines for STEM integration
- Offers global, pan-continental perspectives on STEM and STEAM education
- Brings together perspectives from critical theory, embodied cognition, educational computing and design of learning environments in the context of STEM education
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- About this book
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Over the past decade, integrated STEM education research has emerged as an international concern, creating around it an imperative for technological and disciplinary innovation and a global resurgence of interest in teaching and learning to code at the K-16 levels. At the same time, issues of democratization, equity, power and access, including recent decolonizing efforts in public education, are also beginning to be acknowledged as legitimate issues in STEM education. Taking a reflexive approach to the intersection of these concerns, this book presents a collection of papers making new theoretical advances addressing two broad themes: Transdisciplinary Approaches in STEM Education and Bodies, Hegemony and Decolonization in STEM Education. Within each theme, praxis is of central concern including analyses of teaching and learning that re-imagines disciplinary boundaries and domains, the relationship between Art and STEM, and the design of learning technologies, spaces and environments. In addition to graduate research seminars at the Masters and PhD levels in Learning Sciences, Science Education, Educational Technology and STEM education, this book could also serve as a textbook for graduate and pre-service teacher education courses.
- About the authors
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Pratim Sengupta is a Professor of Learning Sciences and STEM Education in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, where he has held the Research Chair of STEM Education. A recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, he also directs the Mind, Matter, and Media Lab (M3Lab) at the University of Calgary.
Marie-Claire Shanahan is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and STEM Education in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, where she has held the Research Chair of Science Education. She also directs the Mind, Matter, and Media Lab (M3Lab) at the University of Calgary.
Beaumie Kim is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and STEM Education in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.
- Reviews
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“This valuable book presents new perspectives on the past, present, and future of STEM education. It should provoke thoughtful discussions and further research and action.” (Ernest Hughes, Computing Reviews, December 8, 2020)
“I recommend this text for those who have an interest in, what seems, the constant push for STEM Education. With the challenges, tensions, and ambiguities that come with implementing STEM initiatives, the papers in this text give the reader a sense of greater hope and a positive outlook that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics can be used in many creative ways in the classroom.” (Peter Olszewski, MAA Reviews, September 13, 2020)
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Reimagining STEM Education: Critical, Transdisciplinary, and Embodied Approaches
Pages 3-19
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Integrated STEM in Initial Teacher Education: Tackling Diverse Epistemologies
Pages 23-40
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Towards a Production Pedagogy Model for Critical Science and Technology Interventions
Pages 41-60
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Imagining the Sustainable Future Through the Construction of Fantasy Worlds
Pages 61-82
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Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of STEAM Education and Attitudes Toward STEAM Disciplines and Careers in China
Pages 83-100
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Critical, Transdisciplinary and Embodied Approaches in STEM Education
- Editors
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- Pratim Sengupta
- Marie-Claire Shanahan
- Beaumie Kim
- Series Title
- Advances in STEM Education
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-29489-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-29489-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-29488-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-29491-5
- Series ISSN
- 2520-8616
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 366
- Number of Illustrations
- 17 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
- Topics