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Call for Recipes: An STS Teachbook
Recipes from our Science and Technology Studies Communities for Critical
Pedagogies in Undergraduate Education
The STS Teachbook Editorial Collective (Marisa Brandt, Shannon N. Conley,
Megan Halpern, Nicole Mogul, Elizabeth Reddy, Marie Stettler Kleine, David
Tomblin, and Emily York ) are calling for contributors to develop learning
activity “recipes” (less than 1000 words each) for An STS Teachbook, a
handbook for STS-infused critical pedagogy practices. Interested scholars
should send proposals for recipes by filling out the form before September
9, 2024 (see link below). We are especially interested in recipe
submissions from teacher-scholars whose teaching primarily serves
undergraduates, regardless of discipline or class size, and encourage
submissions from teacher-scholars located in minority-serving institutions
and those outside of the Global North. Potential contributors will be
contacted by October 11th, at which point they will be invited to work with
the editorial collective and other contributors to develop their recipes
together.
An STS Teachbook is envisioned as an engaging cookbook-style volume that
will inspire and guide educators in developing rich approaches for teaching
the skills and sensibilities of the interdisciplinary field of Science and
Technology Studies (STS, sometimes also interpreted as Science, Technology,
and Society). Recipes should speak to teacher-scholars looking for ways to
actively engage students in and outside the classroom. Through chapter
introductions and collected recipes, the Teachbook will bring together
pedagogical insights and methods for developing theoretically grounded,
creative, and introspective STS learning experiences for undergraduate
students. The editorial collective is especially interested in recipes that
are grounded in feminist, liberatory, and other critical pedagogical
orientations that are designed to promote thoughtful, active engagement
with the sociotechnical and envirotechnical systems learners interact with
in their lives and careers (e.g., data collection activities, mind/body
awareness activities, collaborative projects, scenario building, etc.).
The book will be organized into five sections of two-to-four chapters each,
designed to build thematically around different key elements of critical
STS pedagogy:
1.
Setting Up and Fostering Inclusive STS Classrooms
2.
Demystifying and Questioning Technoscience in Action
3.
Revealing and Studying Sociotechnical Systems
4.
Interpreting and Problematizing Public Engagement with STEM
5.
Imagining and Making Critical STS Futures
This organization scaffolds critical STS pedagogy from introductory to
advanced content. You can read more about the project and chapter overviews
at https://sites.google.com/view/ststeachbook/home.
An STS Teachbook has an advanced contract with Lever Press
, a Platinum Open Access digital first
press. Publishing with Lever Press will enable the Teachbook to include
multimodal content, extensive appendices for additional curricular
materials, and individual credit for each recipe author and line item in
the Table of Contents. We encourage contributors to include multimedia
teaching and learning resources to enhance and/or illustrate their
contributions.
A Community Process
“Teachers concerned about illumination and possibility know well that there
is some profound sense in which a curriculum in the making is very much a
part of a community in the making.”
Maxine Greene, 2017, 500
You may submit up to three recipes, although we will likely select only one
for publication in the book to ensure a broad variety of contributions from
different authors. When submitting a recipe, you will be asked to identify
which of the five sections you think it most likely fits within.
The Editorial Collective will work together to select and organize
contributions into sections and chapters. Two members of the Collective
will oversee each section, and will serve as ‘section editors’ and
primary
points of contact. Section editors will invite contributors to several
online workshop meetings to collaborate as a community on reading and
offering constructive feedback on the recipes. To the extent possible, we
would like to encourage an internal review process that includes trying out
each other’s recipes in the classroom. Section editors will work with
contributors to identify, curate, and ensure accessibility for any media
associated with a recipe.
Planned Timeline:
September 9, 2024: Submissions due
October 4, 2024: Notifications
October 11, 2024: Submission confirmations due
Late October: Section Groups Meet
Mid November Section Groups Meet
Early December: Submit media materials (optional)
January-February 2025: Try a recipe / Provide a review
March 14, 2025: Submit Revised Recipe / Media Metadata
April 5, 2025: Editorial Collective submits full ms to Lever Press
May - August: Review process, revisions
September 1, 2025: Into Production
September 1, 2026: Published!
Please find the submission form here:
https://sites.google.com/view/ststeachbook/recipe-submission-form
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