Humanistic Values: STEM Education Framework
Source: https://serc.carleton.edu/stemfutures/webinar1.html
Webinar 1: Perspectives on Humanistic Knowledge
Sept 15, 2020
2:00 - 3:15 pm Eastern | 1:00 - 2:15 pm Central | 12:00 - 1:15 pm Mountain | 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Pacific
Speakers
Katina Michael, Professor at Arizona State University and Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
Richard Pitt, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Diego
Overview
Humanistic Knowledge includes attributes that provide a learner with a vision and narrative of the self within social contexts, scaling from local to global. In this webinar, we will explore how our complex identities shape the decision to study STEM (or not), the place of ethics in STEM education in a complexifying world, and the challenges of infusing humanistic considerations into formal STEM curricula.
Developing the Future Substance of STEM Education
The virtual workshop, following a design studio approach, will output model curricular designs for future STEM education programs in higher education. We’ve selected 100 excellent, motivated participants.
“Humanistic knowledge” includes attributes that provide a learner with a vision and narrative of the self within social contexts, scaling from local to global. A key facet of humanistic knowledge is therefore ethics. In the context of STEM education programs, why should we be training STEM majors at all? And how should future STEM programs be configured to meet societal needs?
Webinars
Participants will engage in four webinars preceding the workshop to explore the framework that we will use for discussion. This series of open internet salons will feature invited expert keynotes followed by robust discussion, with the purpose of creating a community of practice (CoP). At the conclusion of these webinars, participants will be acquainted with the motivation, context, and key concepts essential to re-imagine what the future of STEM education.
The first three webinars will consider the trends and forces influencing Foundational, Meta, and Humanistic Knowledge, the barriers and opportunities associated with different approaches, as well as inflection points for consideration. The fourth webinar will bring our conversations together and define work to be completed prior to the October workshop.
Humanistic Knowledge
September 15, 2020
2:00 - 3:15 pm Eastern/11:00 am - 12:15 pm Pacific
Confirmed Discussants: Katina Michael, Professor at Arizona State University and Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society & Richard Pitt, Associate Professor at the University of California San Diego
Meta Knowledge
September 17, 2020
2:00 - 3:15 pm Eastern/11:00 am - 12:15 pm Pacific
Confirmed Discussants: Candace Thille, Director of Learning Science and Engineering at Amazon & Elke Weber, Professor and Director of the Behavioral Science for Policy Lab at Princeton University
Foundational Knowledge
September 23, 2020
2:00 - 3:15 pm Eastern/11:00 am - 12:15 pm Pacific
Confirmed Discussants: Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA & Susan Singer, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Provost, and Professor at Rollins College
Workshop Day 0
September 24, 2020
2:00 - 3:15 pm Eastern/11:00 am - 12:15 pm Pacific
Design Workshop
October 5-9, 2020
11:00 am - 4:00 pm Eastern/8:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific
At the week-long workshop in October, teams will engage in a virtual design studio, translating the Foundational, Meta, and Humanistic knowledge framework into example degree, certificate, and other programs (e.g. a chemistry degree program that incorporates meta and humanistic knowledge alongside foundational knowledge; a certificate program in Anthropocene Sciences). Each team will produce a program description, learning outcomes, a capstone assessment, and an artifact that demonstrates the character of the program (e.g. a list of courses/requirements; a course syllabi that exemplifies the program philosophy; an activity that exemplifies or typifies the program). To deepen and enrich the design experience, teams will interact in small groups with other teams and the workshop participants as a whole. The workshop will conclude with a focus on implementation strategies and recommendations for the larger community.
Citation: Katina Michael and Richard Pitt in Eds, Ariel Anbar, Punya Mishra, Larry R. Ragan “Humanistic Values: STEM Education Framework”, STEM Futures: The Future Substance of STEM Education , https://serc.carleton.edu/stemfutures/webinar1.html#resources