STEM of desire: queer theories and science education

In: Cultural and historical perspectives on science education: research dialogs volume 8

Abstract

Prolegomenon: queer theories and stem education / Steve Fifield and Will Letts -- I snow queen "nigger" : (school) science / Francis S. Broadway -- Queering science education without making too much sense / Steve Fifield and Will Letts -- Beyond nature talk : transforming environmental education with critical and queer theories / Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman -- Wonder in the science classroom / Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray -- Teaching queering physics : an agenda for research and practice / Helene Gotschel -- What does queer theory have to do with teaching science in elementary schools? / Kristin L. Gunckel -- Queering STEM learningscapes / Joe E. Heimlich -- What's in a name? : reflections on learning and teaching in central Texas / Tommye Hutson -- Strange precipitate : how interest in science produces different kinds of students / Kathryn L. Kirchgasler -- What makes girls and boys so desirable? : STEM education -- Beyond gender binaries / Michelle L. Knaier -- Children, nomads, and queering : desire and surprise in a wiggly world / Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander -- Inviting the mess : a children's museum's transgressive tactics for unleashing play / Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone -- Thinking like a fox : queering the science classroom when teaching about sex and sexuality / Michael J. Reiss -- Exhibiting doctors and nurses : queering professional education in a medical museum / Cecilia Rodehn -- Camping science education : a trip to camp wilde and the queer nature of nature / Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig -- Towards a queer curriculum of infinity : what is the biggest number you can think of? / James Sheldon -- Yearning, learning, and earning : the gritty ontologies of American engineering education / Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley -- The bargain / Charlotte Boulay.