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Book SynopsisSTEM 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
