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Reimagining STEM Education: Critical, Transdisciplinary, and Embodied Approaches

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Critical, Transdisciplinary and Embodied Approaches in STEM Education

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This chapter presents a critical overview of the contributions in this book, that re-imagines STEM education along two themes. The first theme offers heterogeneous illustrations of transdisciplinarity, and the second theme illustrates the complex relationship between the body, hegemony and decolonization. Overall, we argue that this book advances critical, transdisciplinary, and embodied approaches in STEM education by illustrating the following: (a) how pedagogical design of transdisciplinary activities can lead to the creation of new representational genres where multiple disciplines meet and coexist, and (b) when learners’ bodies and our collective and colonial histories become part of such investigations, we can challenge cultural and disciplinary hegemonies in K-12 and teacher education.

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Sengupta, P., Shanahan, MC., Kim, B. (2019). Reimagining STEM Education: Critical, Transdisciplinary, and Embodied Approaches. In: Sengupta, P., Shanahan, MC., Kim, B. (eds) Critical, Transdisciplinary and Embodied Approaches in STEM Education. Advances in STEM Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29489-2_1

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