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This book is jam-packed full of strategies and ready made ideas with a creative edge, aimed at engaging children and encouraging them to think critically and scientifically, and to consider key scientific topics in real life scenarios. This book is a must-have for teachers looking to inspire their pupils, and making sure they have fun along the way.
Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways. Offering contributions from students, faculty, practitioners, and administrators, the volume highlights prevailing issues of heteronormativity and marginalization across a range of STEM disciplines.
How we can all be lifelong wonderers- restoring the sense of joy in discovery we felt as children. From an early age, children pepper adults with questions that ask why and how- Why do balloons float? How do plants grow from seeds? Why do birds have feathers? In this book, Frank Keil describes the cognitive dispositions that set children on their paths of discovery and explains how we can all become lifelong wonderers. Keil describes recent research on children's minds that reveals an extraordinary set of emerging abilities that underpin their joy of discovery-their need to learn not just the facts but the underlying causal patterns at the very heart of science.
This guide provides an cross-disciplinary overview of systematic reviews and systematic literature searching, including both practical and conceptual considerations.
This book empowers educators to embrace the unique talents of neurodivergent learners in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). An exploration of the exciting opportunities neurodiversity presents to build an innovative workforce is grounded in a large body of research from psychology, neuroscience, and education. It presents individual examples of neurodivergent journeys in STEM to establish evidence-based connections between neurodiversity and the types of innovative problem-solving skills needed in today's workforce. The featured stories come directly from the author's many years in inclusive classrooms with STEM teachers along with interviews from many neurodivergent professionals in STEM.
This book shows that creativity is much more than drawing or painting something beautiful. It is a way of understanding the world through your hands and learning through art, play and technology. Drawing on the Reggio Emilia approach (among others), it focuses on the process rather than the result and argues that children should be supported in experimenting with materials and mark-making. The authors go against traditional setups where an adult demonstrates how it should be done, showing instead that an inspiring environment and open-ended resources trigger children's intrinsic motivation.
A rich collection of primary sources on women in the history of science. Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women's involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Including texts, images, and objects, the primary sources are each accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research.
This book is designed to support student teachers as they develop their teaching skills and increase their broader knowledge and understanding for teaching science. It offers straightforward advice and inspiration on key topics such as planning, assessment, practical work, the science classroom and more. It is packed with revised and updated case studies, examples of pupils' work, and resources and activities in every chapter.
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This book provides a platform to share the stories of those who have been in STEM careers but have pivoted to other areas by utilizing the STEM skills they learned. It bridges the gap between those who are thinking about entering or leaving STEM careers, along with those who want to encourage others into STEM careers. This book showcases how everyone's journey is different, some may have unexpected twists and turns while others appear to conform to the "normal" rules outlined by society. This book provides advice that can lead to a STEM career with or without having a STEM background. The different roads taken are highlighted to show how everyone's path is unique and how that is okay.
This book delves deep into the multifaceted realm of AI-driven STEM education. It begins by exploring the challenges and opportunities of AI-based STEM education, emphasizing the intricate balance between human tasks and technological tools. The book touches upon the nuances of AI in supporting diverse learners and the ethical considerations surrounding AI's growing influence in educational settings. It showcases the transformative potential of AI in reshaping STEM education, emphasizing the need for adaptive pedagogical strategies that cater to diverse learning needs in an AI-centric world.
This book presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education. It offers theoretical backgrounds, showcases rich examples, and provides evidence of improved student learning and engagement. It presents connections between drama and science, including: students' ability to engage with science through drama, dramatising STEM; mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science; dramatic play-based outdoor activities; and creating embodied, aesthetic and affective learning experiences.
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This book is a collection of ideas, activities and approaches for science learning, to support kids with learning differences aged 9+ to grow in confidence, recall and understanding. The multi-sensory and fun ideas and activities can be adapted to suit individual students' needs and skills, and curriculum stage. This includes mnemonics, art, drama and poetry activities, board games, card games, and more. These strategies will aid neurodiverse students' science learning and memory through boosting their creative thinking, encouraging a play-based and exploratory approach to science.
This book locates, creates, and investigates intersections of STEM education and queer theorizing. Manifold desires--personal, political, cultural--produce and animate STEM education. Queer theories instigate and explore (im)possibilities for knowing and being through desires normal and strange. It draws on queer theories and allied perspectives to trace entanglements of STEM education, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire and to advance constructive critique, creative world-making, and (com)passionate advocacy. This volume turns to what and how STEM education and diverse, desiring subjects might be(come) in relation to each other and the world.
This is the first book to address stem education in prisons in the United States. It calls on activist science teachers to develop innovative ways to teach in challenging carceral settings. The book presents student narratives and case studies emphasizing the achievements of stem education behind prison walls, stem education equity can help address the deep social inequities that mass incarceration creates and magnifies.
Integrating new findings from a major research study with a wide ranging review of existing international literature, this book brings a distinctive sociological analytic lens to the field of science education. It offers an explanation of how some young people do become dedicated to follow science, and what might be done to increase and broaden this population, exploring the need for increased scientific literacy among citizens to enable them to exercise agency and lead a life underpinned by informed decisions about their own health and their environment.
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