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STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement and Transformation is designed to contribute to discourses about how STEM teaching and learning can become more equitable, serving the needs of readers across the STEM educational spectrum.

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STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement and Transformation is designed to contribute to discourses about how STEM teaching and learning can become more equitable, serving the needs of readers across the STEM educational spectrum. STEM21 is meant to problematize the status quo educational practices of STEM stakeholders including preservice and inservice teachers, district leaders, informal educators, policy makers, and the research community. While many books are narrowly targeted either for academics or practitioners, the outcome is limited dialogue between and across those spaces. This volume weaves together field-based research, personal narrative, and education theory, while providing for reflection and discussion. STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement and Transformation is undergirded by the principle that engaged STEM education accommodates theory and practice that is equitable, rejects deficit model thinking, and is community relevant. Equitable STEM pedagogy builds autonomous pathways to learning; creates a culture of questioning and transparency; celebrates diversity of thought, habit and culture; and embraces a social justice stance on issues of race, class, gender, environmental responsibility, health, and access to resources.

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List of Illustrations ix - List of Tables - List of Contributors - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Joy Barnes-Johnson and Janelle M. Johnson: Introduction - Section One: Standards and Pedagogy: Applying Research to Practice - Joy Barnes-Johnson: 21st c LEASE: Language of Equity and Access to STEM Education - Edmund S. Adjapong: Hip-Hop Pedagogy as a Framework to Support the Development of Science Geniuses - Christian Konadu Asante/Jacqueline DeLisi/Megan McKinley/Michael Barnett: Seeding the Future: Social-Justice Driven STEM Education - Section Two: Engagement: Extended Learning Opportunities - Leslie S. Keiler/Kathleen Robbins: New Roles and Relationships in Urban STEM Learning Environments: How the Peer-Enabled Restructured Classroom Enhances Equity and Access - Cassie Xu/Robert Newton/Margaret Turrin/Susan Vincent: Early Engagement in Research as a Tool for Broadening Science Participation - Srinjita Bhaduri/Alexandra Gendreau/Varsha Srikanth Koushik/Tammy Sumner/John Ristvey/Randy Russell: Promoting Middle School Students´ Motivation and Persistence in an After-School Engineering Program - Section Three: Transformation: Transgressive Practices along the Journey - Joy Barnes-Johnson: Engaged Interdisciplinary Literacy: Research and Practices of Secondary STREAM - Gretchen E. L. Suess, Joanna Chae, and Sharon Lewis: Transformative Education Pathways to Improve Health Literacy, STEM Learning, and Youth Outcomes - Janelle M. Johnson, Roland Schendel, Elizabeth McClellan Ribble, and Hsiu-Ping Liu: Institutional Capacity Building for STEM Teacher Education at an Urban Commuter University - Joy Barnes-Johnson and Janelle M. Johnson: Implications and Conclusions - Appendices - Index - Conceptual Framework Theorists Index.

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