Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to inspire and motivate young people about science and technology learning. The book is aligned with the National Research Council's new Framework for Science Education, which includes an explicit focus on engineering and design content, as well as integration across disciplines. Extensive case studies explore real world examples of innovative programs that take place in a variety of settings, including schools, museums, community centers, and virtual spaces. Design, Make, and Play are presented as learning methodologies that have the power to rekindle children's intrinsic motivation and innate curiosity about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. A digital companion app showcases rich multimedia that brings the stories and successes of each program-and the students who learn there-to life.

Focuses on the hot-button issue of STEM education and how to effectively-and equitably-stimulate student interest in STEM fields Supported by the lead author's extensive speaking schedule and media contacts Features leading-edge research and practical advice and provides appealing and accessible forms of engagement that will support a diverse range of audiences and deepen their approach to creative STEM learning Contributions from program developers, facilitators, educators, exhibit designers, and researchers

Focuses on the hot-button issue of STEM education and how to effectively-and equitably-stimulate student interest in STEM fields Supported by the lead author's extensive speaking schedule and media contacts Features leading-edge research and practical advice and provides appealing and accessible forms of engagement that will support a diverse range of audiences and deepen their approach to creative STEM learning Contributions from program developers, facilitators, educators, exhibit designers, and researchers

Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to inspire and motivate young people about science and technology learning. The book is aligned with the National Research Council's new Framework for Science Education, which includes an explicit focus on engineering and design content, as well as integration across disciplines. Extensive case studies explore real world examples of innovative programs that take place in a variety of settings, including schools, museums, community centers, and virtual spaces. Design, Make, and Play are presented as learning methodologies that have the power to rekindle children's intrinsic motivation and innate curiosity about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. A digital companion app showcases rich multimedia that brings the stories and successes of each program-and the students who learn there-to life.

For many years mothers have been viewed in terms of their impact on children rather than as people with needs, feelings, and interests-subjects in their own right. This book explores the maternal experience from the mother's point of view. It questions a society that has devalued and sentimentalized motherhood, presents images of generative and creative women who are also mothers, discusses the complex psychological experience of having and being a mother, and examines how representations of mothers in art, film, literature, the social and behavioral sciences, and historical writing have affected women. Contents Introduction Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey, and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan Part I: The Acknowledgment and Appropriation of Maternal Work Thinking Mothers/Conceiving Birth Sara Ruddick Fictions of Home Jane Lazarre Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood Patricia Hill Collins The Mothers of the Disappeared: Passion and Protest in Maternal Action Jean Bethke Elshtain Maternity and Rememory in Toni Morrison's Beloved Marianne Hirsch Part II: The Paradoxical Nature of the Maternal Position Being a Mother and Being a Psychoanalyst: Two Impossible Professions Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study of Fantasy and Reality Jessica Benjamin Mothering, Hate, and Winnicott Elsa First Maternal Subjectivity in the Culture of Nostalgia: Mourning and Memory Donna Bassin Rosalind: A Family Romance Myra Goldberg Part III: The Cultural Construction and Reconstruction of the Maternal Image Images of the Maternal: An Interview with Barbara Kruger Therese Lichtenstein The Power of "Positive" Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis Rayna Rapp The Maternal Voice in the Technological Universe Margaret Honey Taking the Nature Out of Mother Adria Schwartz Sex, Work, and Motherhood: Maternal Subjectivity in Recent Visual Culture E. Ann Kaplan Playing and Motherhood; or, How to Get the Most Out of the Avant-Garde Susan Rubin Suleiman