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A Philosophical Analysis of STEM Education

Teeple, Jamie Eric
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543280674680388

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
In this dissertation, I critique STEM education as the educational apotheosis of neoliberal governmentality and reconceptualize it for an egalitarian democracy. Part and parcel of this analysis is considering Wendy Brown’s (2015) contention that the contemporary subject is interpolated by the prevailing norms of neoliberalism as a governing form of political rationality and thus expresses itself not as a political subject, or “homo politicus”, but as a self-investing and economized subject, or “homo oeconomicus”. I hypothesize that students as emergent homo oeconomicus seek out STEM education as the best means for survival within a technocratic marketplace. In this sense, STEM literacy is rendered the paradigmatic form of symbolic capital within the capitalist state. The thrust of my critical response to this milieu figures left-libertarian or social-anarchist thought as the diametrically opposed and thus apposite ideological rejoinder to the right-authoritarian status quo, not only for political activism writ large, but also for educational reform proposals and even the preparation of preservice teachers. In the end, my research is an attempt to explore how students’ narratives can assist critical educators with leveraging pedagogy into a potent means for cultivating within educational systems the social imaginaries and political subjects needed to eschew the aims of a right-authoritarian status quo and embrace the aims of an egalitarian, left-libertarian society-to-be.
Bryan Warnick, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Michael Glassman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Bruce Kimball, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
182 p.
Curricula; Education; Education Philosophy; Education Policy; Educational Sociology; Educational Theory; Ethics; Pedagogy; Philosophy; Political Science; Social Research; Social Structure; Sociology; Teacher Education; Teaching
STEM Education, Neoliberalism, Anarchism, Critical Pedagogy, Social Foundations of Education, Philosophy of Education, George Counts, Sheldon Wolin, Wendy Brown

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  • Teeple, J. E. (2018). A Philosophical Analysis of STEM Education [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543280674680388

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Teeple, Jamie. A Philosophical Analysis of STEM Education. 2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543280674680388.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Teeple, Jamie. "A Philosophical Analysis of STEM Education." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543280674680388

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