STEM of Desire

Will Letts, PhD (2005), University of Delaware, is associate dean academic in the Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests include the cultural studies of science (education), especially with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality. Steve Fifield, PhD (1999), University of Minnesota, is an affiliated assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. He has worked in universities, schools, and museums and is interested in entanglements of self and science education.

• AcknowledgementsIllyriaCharlotte BoulayProlegomenon: Queer Theories and STEM EducationSteve Fifield and Will Letts1. I : Snow Queen :: “Nigger” : (School) ScienceFrancis S. Broadway2. Queering Science Education without Making Too Much SenseSteve Fifield and Will Letts3. Beyond Nature Talk: Transforming Environmental Education with Critical and Queer TheoriesBlake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman4. Wonder in the Science ClassroomAndrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray5. Teaching Queering Physics: An Agenda for Research and PracticeHelene Götschel6. What Does Queer Theory Have to Do with Teaching Science in Elementary Schools?Kristin L. Gunckel7. Queering STEM LearningscapesJoe E. Heimlich8. What’s in a Name? Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Central TexasTommye Hutson9. Strange Precipitate: How Interest in Science Produces Different Kinds of StudentsKathryn L. Kirchgasler10. What Makes Girls and Boys So Desirable? STEM Education beyond Gender BinariesMichelle L. Knaier11. Children, Nomads, and Queering: Desire and Surprise in a Wiggly WorldSheri Leafgren and Scott Sander12. Inviting the Mess: A Children’s Museum’s Transgressive Tactics for Unleashing PlayAnna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone13. Thinking Like a Fox: Queering the Science Classroom When Teaching about Sex and SexualityMichael J. Reiss14. Exhibiting Doctors and Nurses: Queering Professional Education in a Medical MuseumCecilia Rodéhn15. Camping Science Education: A Trip to Camp Wilde and the Queer Nature of NatureNicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig16. Towards a Queer Curriculum of InfinityJames Sheldon17. Yearning, Learning, and Earning: The Gritty Ontologies of American Engineering EducationAmy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley18. The BargainCharlotte Boulay