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Disrupting Secondary STEM Education: Educator Experiences of Teaching for Globally Just Futures book cover

1st Edition

Disrupting Secondary STEM Education Educator Experiences of Teaching for Globally Just Futures

Edited By Margery Gardner Copyright 2025
222 Pages 4 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 4 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 4 Color Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume brings into focus the pivotal educational years during adolescence, when many learners are exposed to implicit and explicit messages that STEM is not a viable educational pathway for them. Challenging this notion, Disrupting Secondary STEM Education brings together a collective of critical educators who share what disruptive STEM teaching looks and feels like from an insider... Read more

List of Illustrations

Preface
Margery Gardner                                                                                                    

Theme 1: Introducing disruptive STEM and basic approaches    

Introduction: Setting the stage for disruptive secondary STEM education
Margery Gardner                                                                                                    

1. Portraits of STEM Disruptors
Margery Gardner        

2. Planning for disruptive STEM
Margery Gardner        

Theme 2: Content-focused, disruptive STEM curriculum, with specific in-depth lessons                                                                                

 3. Understanding eco-colonialism through globally competent STEM praxis
Margery Gardner                                                                                                    

 4. Teaching for racial and environmental justice - Flint, Michigan, USA
Margery Gardner                                                                                                    

 5. Centering Indigenous voice: STEM teacher training in service of decolonial futures
Hugh Burnam and Margery Gardner                                                                                                                                  

Theme 3: Process-focused, disruptive STEM pedagogy, with interwoven thematic explorations                                                             

6. Queering the biology classroom: Intersections between queer pedagogy and disruptive STEM teaching
Providence Rubey                                                                                                  

7. The City Budget Project: Proportionality, financial literacy, and culturally responsive mathematics
Enrique Nuñez                                                                                                        

8. Addressing wicked problems in teacher preparation through educator solidarity
Randa Elbih, Anita Bright, Margery Gardner                                                                                                                                     

9. Learning with an unprepared mind is like walking into a forest without a map: Developing reflective meditation practices in math
Payal Patel                                                                                                                

10. STEM teaching for collective care and action            
Margery Gardner and Hugh Burnam

Appendix

Index

Biography

Margery Gardner is the Director of Teacher Preparation and an Assistant Professor in Educational Studies at Colgate University, USA.

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