STEM and Social Justice: Teaching and Learning in Diverse Settings

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview:  Teaching and Learning STEM and Social Justice.- Part I Teaching and Learning STEM in Formal Settings.- Chapter 2 Science Made Sensible.- Chapter 3 Te Ropu Awhina: A Model for Building Post-secondary Maori and Pacific STEM Capability in Aotearoa/New Zealand.- Chapter 4.Enhancing Global Research and Education G-STEM at Spelman College.- Part II   Teaching and Learning STEM in Informal Settings.- Chapter 5Recent Research on Science Engagement in Informal Settings in South Africa.- Chapter 6 Recent Research on Science Engagement in Informal Settings in South Africa.- Chapter 7 Science Museums, Science Education and Social Justice.- Part III The Role of Professional Societies.- Chapter 8 Critical contemporary questions for engineering education in an unequal society: Deliberations for the South African Society for Engineering Education (SASEE).- Part IV  Lessons Learned  and the Way Forward.- Chapter 9 Lessons Learned Across Settings, and the Way Forward.

Cheryl B. Leggon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Dr. Leggon's research underscores the criticality of disaggregating data by race/ethnicity and gender to develop policy, programs, and practices that enhance the quality of the United States' science and engineering labor forces.  She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her work on women of color-African American, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Native American-in science and engineering in the United States.  In 2006, she was elected to membership in Sigma Xi. In 2013, Dr. Leggon was appointed to the Human Resources Expert Panel (HREP), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation. Before coming to Georgia Tech in 2002, she was Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University and prior to that aStaff Officer in the Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council, National Academies. Dr. Leggon earned the PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago, and the BA in Sociology from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Michael Gaines is Professor of Biology, Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Research and Director of Pre-health Advising and Mentoring at the University of Miami (UM). Gaines earned a B.S. degree at Tulane University and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University. His research is on the effects of grazing and burning on microbial diversity in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Gaines is director of UM's HHMI Undergraduate Education Program. The major goal of the program is to increase the number of underrepresented students in research careers. He also directs a NIGMS Bridge Program between UM and Miami Dade College (MDC) and an NSF S-STEM Program.  Both of these programs aim to increase the number of MDC students who are