STEM Thinking in Cultural Making: The Case of a Ghanaian Woodworker

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: Sociocultural Perspectives in STEM Education (Table 2)

Abstract

Through observational case study and emic-etic analysis, the conceptual grounding of circularity
and other geometric properties were variedly reconstructed through cultural making. These
reconstructions provided solutions to major challenges identified by researchers in student’s
classroom geometry education. To this end, appreciating such non-conventional forms of making
is proposed as the democratization of access to STEM thinking which eliminates marginalization.

Author

• Emmanuel Nti-Asante, Florida International University