Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to share our CFP for a 2-day, NSF-funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy to be held July 30-31, 2020, at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.
Please see below the full CFP. I have also attached a PDF version. Please circulate to people you think might be interested.
All the best,
Emily
CFP: STS as a Critical Pedagogy
James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Workshop: July 30-31, 2020
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2020
With this small, two-day NSF-funded workshop, we hope to bring together a community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners to reflect on Science and Technology Studies (STS) as critical pedagogy within various educational contexts,
including undergraduate education, K-12, public engagement and outreach, museums, and graduate student training. We invite participants to (1) share experiments in STS as critical pedagogy, (2) reflect on what it means to engage students and the public in
STS, (3) contribute to defining STS as ‘critical pedagogy’, and (4) analyze how pedagogical practices might inform STS theories and methods. We envision this gathering as a way to share best practices, successes, and challenges in cultivating and interrogating
learning environments in which STS is deployed as a disruptive, experimental intervention. We also hope it will foment creative and exciting new ways of theorizing and practicing STS pedagogies and encourage new work at the intersection of research and pedagogy.
With a focus on community formation, this workshop will eschew more formal paper presentations in favor of more lively round-table discussions, interactive sessions, and facilitated collaboration to define and elaborate on STS
as a ‘critical pedagogy’.
To apply for this workshop, please email the following to
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Topics of this workshop may include but are not limited to:
Please address questions to Emily York and Shannon Conley at
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Assistant Professor
School of Integrated Sciences
James Madison University
702 Carrier Drive MSC 4302
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Office: EnGeo 2133
Co-director, STS Futures Lab
Associate Editor, Engineering
Studies