Given the growing global environmental threats, shifts to increasingly binary thinking that
isolate and polarize discourse, and the erosion of caring for each other and our places, the …

Teacher education programs are increasingly taking up commitments to prepare new
teachers for equitable teaching. Despite best intentions, programs feel challenged to help …

In this paper, we—a participatory action group—use the tenants of critical pedagogy to
articulate how youths developed relationships for and with STEM disciplinary practices …

Social, political, and cultural complexities observed in environmental justice (EJ)
communities require new forms of investigation, science teaching, and communication …

The COVID‐19 global pandemic was a socio‐scientific issue (SSI) that had an impact on
various aspects of life including education. Educational institutions adapted to new learning …

While our world consistently presents complicated, interdisciplinary problems with STEM
foundations, most pre-university curricula do not encourage drawing on multidisciplinary …

K-12 education as an enterprise always has two main aims; to teach basic skills and
knowledge and to cultivate moral citizenry. There is substantial evidence that empathy can …

Understanding how people learn engineering and how to prepare better engineers has
been a central concern since the formalization of engineering education (Froyd et al., 2012) …

Background: Recently, scholars have called for increasing so-called “soft-skills” held by
engineering students, particularly their ability to empathize. In response, educational …

Abstract In the United States, individuals who identify as Black are severely
underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines …