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Society, Culture, and STEM
A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration
Society, Culture, and STEM
A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration
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Description
Too often students are asked to participate in rather generic classroom activities, such as worksheets, essays, and rote memorization, which may not capture cultural interest or experience. In Society, Culture, and STEM: A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration, teachers will learn a team-based approach to incorporating local and international cultural perspectives and experiences into a curriculum of STEM subjects. This book presents a six-phase process, Pryor-Kang Socio-cultural STEM Curriculum Development Model, for designing a socio-cultural STEM curriculum that is integrative, expansive, personal, and achievement-oriented. The Model focuses on a teacher-student-community outreach process, ongoing evaluation, solicitation of feedback, and continuous improvement through curriculum redesign or reconfiguration. In this process, a selected set of curriculum goals, interdisciplinary content learning standards, and resources are coordinated purposefully to capture multiple perspectives and needs. This book provides a newly developed pathway to enhancing STEM learning experiences!
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCING A SOCIO-CULTURAL CURRICULUM
Chapter 1: What This Book Is About
Chapter 2: A Pedagogical Framework for A Socio-Cultural Stem Curriculum
PART II: DEVELOPING A SOCIO-CULTURAL STEM CURRICULUM
Chapter 3: Using Social Problems to Frame A Curriculum Theme, Essential Questions And Goals
Chapter 4: A Developmental Model for A Socio-Cultural Stem Curriculum
Chapter 5: Resources For Generating Inputs and Outputs to Your Nodes
PART III: EXAMPLE CURRICULUM THEMES AND LESSON PLANS
Chapter 6: Tackling Local and Global Challenges with Socio-Cultural Stem (Sharon M. Locke and Georgia Bracey)
Chapter 7: Contextualizing Socio-Cultural Stem Through Historical Figures and Events (Whitney G. Blankenship, Anne Aydinian-Perry, Dean P. Vesperman, And Matthew Missias)
Chapter 8: Learning About Contributions of Diverse Cultures to Socio-Cultural Stem, (Matthew Lindquist And Joseph Peters)
Chapter 9: Computer Science Education Through Socio-Cultural Steam (Lily R. Liang, Rui Kang, And Briana Wellman)
Chapter 10: Building Socio-Cultural Understanding Through Integration of Social Science And Stem In Problem-Based Lessons (Barbara O’Donnell)
Chapter 11: Using Socio-Cultural Stem To Investigate Moral And Ethical Issues: Teaching Bioethics (Adam I. Attwood, Donna F. Short, And Philip C. Short)
Appendices
About the Contributors
About the Author’s
Subject Index
Product details
Published | 29 Nov 2024 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 240 |
ISBN | 9798881859886 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Illustrations | 8 BW Illustrations |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Society, Culture, and STEM: A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration is a book that middle school curriculum and instruction needs now! Pryor and Kang have given an insightful framework for making curricula more meaningful to students and communities. The Socio-cultural STEM Curriculum framework will mark a profound shift in STEM pedagogy. Give it a read, you will not be disappointed!
Matthew Campbell, EdD, coordinator of K-12 Social Studies, Conroe ISD
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Society, Culture, and STEM is a must-read for educators who want to make STEM accessible and meaningful to all their students.
Andrea Guiden Pittman, PhD, senior professorial lecturer, American University and Jenice L. View, PhD, Associate professor emerita, George Mason University
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I appreciate the team-based curriculum development model offered Society, Culture, and STEM: A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration.
Kimberly Joggerst, EdD, mathematics teacher and lecturer of education, McKendree University
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Learners are part of school, local and global communities. Society, Culture, and STEM: A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration incorporates a socio-cultural perspective into STEM teaching, and provides a practical instructional framework and sample lessons.
Dr. Michael E. Karpyn, social studies department, Marple Newtown Senior High School