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!
Caroline R. Pryor is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, Health, and Human Behavior at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Pryor teaches graduate courses in Analysis of Instruction, Curriculum Models, Adult Education and Grant Writing. Pryor's teaching and research focus is STEM-Social Studies curriculum integration. Rui Kang is Professor of Secondary Education (6-12) at Georgia College & State University (GCSU). She teaches graduate courses in numerous areas, including math pedagogy, assessment, educational research, and learner development. Her scholarship focuses on mathematics teaching and learning, STEM education, and teacher preparation and professional development.
Preface 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
