Stem of Desire

Queer Theories and Science Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36998-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21/8, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education / Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education: Research Dialogs

STEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science Education locates, creates, and investigates intersections of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (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. The provocative original manuscripts in this collection draw 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. Not just another call for inclusion, this volume turns to what and how STEM education and diverse, desiring subjects might be(come) in relation to each other and the world.

STEM of Desire is the first book-length project on queering STEM education. Eighteen chapters and two poems by 27 contributors consider STEM education in schools and universities, museums and other informal learning environments, and everyday life. Subject areas include physical and life sciences, engineering, mathematics, nursing and medicine, environmental education, early childhood education, teacher education, and education standards. These queering orientations to theory, research, and practice will interest STEM teacher educators, teachers and professors, undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, policy makers, and academic libraries.

Contributors are: Jesse Bazzul, Charlotte Boulay, Francis S. Broadway, Erin A. Cech, Steve Fifield, blake m. r. flessas, Andrew Gilbert, Helene Götschel, Emily M. Gray, Kristin L. Gunckel, Joe E. Heimlich, Tommye Hutson, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Michelle L. Knaier, Sheri Leafgren, Will Letts, Anna MacDermut, Michael J. Reiss, Donna M. Riley, Cecilia Rodéhn, Scott Sander, Nicholas Santavicca, James Sheldon, Amy E. Slaton, Stephen Witzig, Timothy D. Zimmerman, and Adrian Zongrone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Letts, Will

Fifield, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Illyria

Charlotte Boulay

Prolegomenon: Queer Theories and STEM Education

Steve Fifield and Will Letts

1. I: Snow Queen: “Nigger”: (School) Science

Francis S. Broadway

2. Queering Science Education without Making Too Much Sense

Steve Fifield and Will Letts

3. Beyond Nature Talk: Transforming Environmental Education with Critical and Queer Theories

Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman

4. Wonder in the Science Classroom

Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray

5. Teaching Queering Physics: An Agenda for Research and Practice

Helene Götschel

6. What Does Queer Theory Have to Do with Teaching Science in Elementary Schools?

Kristin L. Gunckel

7. Queering STEM Learningscapes

Joe E. Heimlich

8. What’s in a Name? Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Central Texas

Tommye Hutson

9. Strange Precipitate: How Interest in Science Produces Different Kinds of Students

Kathryn L. Kirchgasler

10. What Makes Girls and Boys So Desirable? STEM Education beyond Gender Binaries

Michelle L. Knaier

11. Children, Nomads, and Queering: Desire and Surprise in a Wiggly World

Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander

12. Inviting the Mess: A Children’s Museum’s Transgressive Tactics for Unleashing Play

Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone

13. Thinking Like a Fox: Queering the Science Classroom When Teaching about Sex and Sexuality

Michael J. Reiss

14. Exhibiting Doctors and Nurses: Queering Professional Education in a Medical Museum

Cecilia Rodéhn

15. Camping Science Education: A Trip to Camp Wilde and the Queer Nature of Nature

Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig

16. Towards a Queer Curriculum of Infinity

James Sheldon

17. Yearning, Learning, and Earning: The Gritty Ontologies of American Engineering Education

Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley

18. The Bargain

Charlotte Boulay

Über Autor(innen)

Will Letts, PhD (2005), University of Delaware, is associate dean academic in the Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests include the cultural studies of science (education), especially with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality.



Steve Fifield, PhD (1999), University of Minnesota, is an affiliated assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. He has worked in universities, schools, and museums and is interested in entanglements of self and science education.