Society, Culture, and STEM : A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration - Caroline R. Pryor

Society, Culture, and STEM

A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration

By: Caroline R. Pryor, Rui Kang

Hardcover | 5 February 2025

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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

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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

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

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

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

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