Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics

Description

This book argues that integrating artistic contributions – with an emphasis on culture and language – can make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects more accessible, and therefore promote creativity and innovation in teaching and learning at all levels of education. It provides tools and strategies for managing interdisciplinary learning and teaching based on successful collaborations between researchers, practitioners and artists in the fields of the Arts and STEM subjects. Based on contributions by educators, scientists, scholars, linguists and artists from around the globe, the book highlights how we can demonstrate teamwork and collaboration for innovation and creativity in STEAM subjects in the classroom and beyond. The book reflects the core of human rights education, using local languages and local knowledge through art as a tool for teaching human rights at school, and bringing to light questions on diversity, ecology, climate change, environmental issues, health and the future of human beings, as well as power relations between non-dominant (minorities) and dominant (the majority) groups in society. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Educational Tools to Teach STEAM Subjects Integrating Linguistic Rights, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking (Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite)....Pages 3-15 Verbal Arts as Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Tools in Math/Science Education (Sam Mchombo)....Pages 17-38 Educating For/Against Modernity, Arts and Technoculture (Purushottama Bilimoria)....Pages 39-56 Art, Science and Language: Teaching Tools of Aborigines in India (Rajunayak Vislavath)....Pages 57-71 Fictions as Heuristic Tools—Toward an Understanding of Agency as the Foundation of Human and Linguistic Rights in the Curriculum (Beatrice Sasha Kobow)....Pages 73-87 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 STEAM Education: Why Learn Design Thinking? (Alma Leora Culén, Andrea Alessandro Gasparini)....Pages 91-108 Using Technology to Scaffold Progressive Teaching (Jeppe Bundsgaard)....Pages 109-124 Expressive Robotics (Viet Vu, David Liu, Kreshnik Begolli)....Pages 125-139 Embracing Creativity in K-12 Engineering Pedagogy (Alestra Flores Menéndez, Helen Min)....Pages 141-149 Notes from Artists: Making the Invisible Visible and Art as the Bridge to Science and Interconnectedness (Liz Ibarra, Ane Sommerstad)....Pages 151-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 Humanity Moving Since Pre-historic Times to the Future with Creative STEAM (Ubiratan D’Ambrosio)....Pages 163-175 Reflections on STEAM in Education (Victor N. Kobayashi)....Pages 177-187 The Synchronicity of Art and Mathematics (Gregory Johnson)....Pages 189-200 The Hidden and Essential Narrative: Language and Visual Art as Learning Tools in STEM (Helen Harrison)....Pages 201-222 Artists as Co-teachers in the Field of Medicine (Melanie Ekholdt Huynh)....Pages 223-235 Back Matter ....Pages 237-251