Teaching STEM Within Social Studies as Citizenship Education: A Multimodal Study of Preservice Teachers' Perspectives

• In Event: 77.058 - MTCC Roundtable Session 36
  In Roundtable Session: 77.058-8 - Beyond Traditional Methods: New Development in Citizenship Education and Civic Engagement

Abstract

After completing a social studies methods course, preservice teachers explained the impact of teaching STEM within the social studies as a component of civic education. Participants were 15 preservice teachers who had participated in an intervention embedded in a methods course. Data were collected using an interview protocol based on the findings of a 2016 attitude-belief study. New results suggest that although students’ beliefs had not diminished, challenges remain about how to more deeply link STEM to civics within the methods course as well as subsequent implementation in student teaching.

Authors

• Caroline R. Pryor, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

• Brandt W. Pryor, Educational Research Associates