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I.09. The Democratic Turn in University STEM Education Location: Edificio ex Tumminelli (C007): Sala Sociologia Convenor(s): ola Lilensten (Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, France); Kylee Goode (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom); Ilija Rašović (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) | |
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STEM with a Critical Edge: A Systematic Review of Humanities-integrated Pedagogies Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa Recent developments in STEM education raise a key pedagogical question that has implications for democratic and critical citizenship: how should future scientists and engineers be educated in a global context shaped by uncertainty, the rise of populist politics and techno-deterministic outlooks, and a retreat from critical global conversations into the nation-state container? This paper explores this topic by conducting a systematic review of scholarship on the nexus between STEM education and the humanities in higher education to examine whether, and under what conditions, humanities-integrated pedagogies cultivate the reflexive and deliberative capacities required for critical and democratic science education. Based on a preliminary assessment of the literature, the paper argues that giving STEM education a critical and humanistic edge requires more than the addition of participatory techniques to existing curricula and requires the embedding of pedagogical designs that reopen crucial and relational questions related to knowledge, methods of knowing and public responsibility within STEM itself, making the humanities not just ancillary to democratic STEM education but rather its integral parts. | |