Paper short abstract:

This is an interactive workshop hosted by the CREATE/STS Editorial Collective: Emily York, Marisa Brandt, Shannon N. Conley, Megan Halpern, Nicole Mogul, Elizabeth Reddy, Marie Stettler Kleine, David Tomblin

Paper long abstract:

In this Making and Doing session, members of the CREATE/STS Editorial Collective (associated with the NSF-funded project “Collaborative Research and Education Architecture for Transformative Engagement With STS”) invite STSers to craft learning activity and assessment “recipes.” We want visitors to our session to share and connect with the diversity of approaches to critical, feminist, and/or alternative experiential teaching & learning practices that STSers have tried and loved. We see ourselves as part of a growing field that values approaching STS undergraduate education through multiple modalities beyond the standard lecture and discussion method that dominates undergraduate education. With template starters, recipe cards, and posting boards to help us collectively make visible the kinds of learning objectives, activities, and joys and sorrows that we experience and encounter, we imagine a making and doing session that revels in the challenges and occasional successes of STS education that invites learners to do STS. While participants are not required to submit these for possible inclusion in an edited collection, the CREATE/STS Editorial Collective will share its call for an edited collection, An STS Teachbook: Recipes from our Science and Technology Studies Communities for Critical Pedagogies in Undergraduate Education. This Making and Doing session will also be complemented by a workshop. Participants of this session will have an opportunity to work intimately with members of the Editorial Collective on crafting recipes for the book and/or their personal course revisions and development.