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STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream: Reimagining the Culture of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
| Title | STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream: Reimagining the Culture of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
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| Date | 2025-01-03 22:42:02 |
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Desciption
STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream explores the ways that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics can transform all young people’s lives through learning. This includes reimagining our collective relationship to STEM by presenting it as more accepting and accessible than previously acknowledged. Beginning with the ways that STEM has been used to marginalize many children, the book examines the need for the arts – including culture – to serve as an anchor for instruction. It also describes the need for “making” (hands-on creation and tinkering) in establishing relevance in learning. Then, through an experiential approach, the book articulates the value of dreaming of a future that is inclusive of all young people, especially those furthest from opportunity. To help all children claim their STEM identity, the book provides educators, policy makers, and community leaders with tangible ways to honor culture, increase equity, and encourage curiosity. The book demystifies STEM and shows a clear pathway to empowering children with the skills needed to succeed in a science and tech-based world. In addition, it offers educators a roadmap to developing future creators, innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs. This includes providing the tools and knowledge necessary to advocate for sustainable change and address inequity, apathy, and the many other real problems in education. To do so, the book combines real-world stories, observations, and research in a visually-rich package that includes activities, inspiring quotes, and key takeaways. To help ground research and theory, readers will hear from – and be inspired by – practitioners, activists, and artists ranging from renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to founding Wu-Tang Clan member GZA to acclaimed educator Gholdy Muhammad. In profiling these innovators, the book reveals how readers can nurture creativity, spark joy, and promote perseverance in all children. Read more
Review
Editorial Reviews Review STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream is Dr. Chris Emdin’s magnum opus. This unapparelled work of art does what many texts simply cannot do. It tells us what to do, explains why it will work, and empowers the reader to teach STEM in a way that will transform generations of learners. This is "THE" text for every science teacher training program and professional development. —Bryan A Brown Ph.D., professor of science education, Stanford University I have so much respect for Chris Emdin as an educator, visionary, and challenger-of-the-not-good-enough-status-quo. Like Chris, I believe that in so many ways, unnecessary obstacles have been put in the way of too many young people—particularly students of color. Yes, STEM and STEAM are for everyone. Who better than Chris to help us get there. —Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder and CEO of Character Lab, author of Grit In STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream, Christopher Emdin has stitched together an educational quilt where each piece tells a powerful story. You don’t have to be engaged in STEM or even in the education profession to enjoy and learn from the powerful stories told in this volume. It is a wonderful, must-read! —Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, president of the National Academy of Education (2018–2021), author of The Dreamkeepers, Critical Race Theory in Education, and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy In STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream, Chris Emdin offers a decisive call to action: to break down barriers to STEM fields and the arts—especially for Black, Brown, and Indigenous children—by seeing and celebrating the curiosity and creativity that make children natural problem solvers, scientists, mathematicians, innovators, artists, builders, and dreamers. With clarity, wit, and timely examples, Dr. Emdin calls on both educators and caregivers to identify and dismantle harmful and exclusionary patterns that often pervade STEM, and to create new relationships with STEAM fields. His vision, articulated in this powerful book, will support the promise of the brilliant children in our homes, classrooms, and communities as they dream into existence a more beautiful and liberated world. — Deborah Loewenberg Ball, William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and the founding director of TeachingWorks A compelling, ground breaking, accessible, and timely take on the problems in STEM education and how we can improve it. The powerful stories and perspectives here will usher in a new way of thinking and a new generation of STEM professionals. —Stephon Alexander, professor of physics, Brown University; author of Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics About the Author Dr. Christopher Emdin is the Naslund Endowed Chair in Curriculum and Teaching and Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, and he’s one of the nation’s leading voices on equity in education. The founder of Science Genius and author of the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood . . . and the Rest of Y’all Too, and its sequel, Ratchetdemic, Chris’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
