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Designing for Social Change: Justice-Oriented Interventions in K–12 STEM Settings

Sun, April 14, 1:15 to 2:45pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115C

Session Type: Symposium

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In this symposium we propose a panel discussion between scholars in STEM education who have been engaged in humanizing and justice-oriented pedagogies that aim to support learners from marginalized communities in social change-making in their local context.
Given the dominant forces of racism and classism, social change entails lengthy activism with broad participation and support. However, in K-12 classrooms time per topic/unit is limited, isolated classrooms make broad participation and allyship challenging to attain, and existing status quo of schools and schooling pushes back on any attempted change. How, then, can we support social change-making given these realities? Our cadre of scholars will discuss their successes, challenges, and tensions in supporting change making through consequential and community-based approaches to learning.

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