Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education

Dr. Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite is a Researcher at the Graduate School of Education and President of the Humanities and Social Science Association at the University of California-Berkeley, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco and at Saint Mary’s College of California, USA. She is also a lecturer at San Jose State University. Dr. Babaci-Wilhite is affiliated with the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, and supervises students at the Department of Educational Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, where she obtained her Master’s and PhD in Comparative and International Education. She has taught courses and workshops in the USA, Norway, Japan, India, France, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria on issues related to language and culture, development and human rights. Her current research interests include Language and Science Literacy as a Human Right in Education, Development Aid, African Higher Education and Technology. Through her recent research projects, she has developed an interest in the pedagogy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), putting the “A” in STEM and transforming it into STEAM. She is the author of many published articles in prominent academic journals, of several book chapters, and of two books: one on Local Languages as a Human Right in Education and the other on Language, Development Aid and Human Rights: Curriculum Policies in Africa and Asia. Dr. Babaci-Wilhite has also edited two volumes: Giving Space to African Voices and Human Rights in Language and STEM Education. She is fluent in French, English, Norwegian, Japanese and Berber, with knowledge of Arabic, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Swahili and Igbo.

Section 1: Integrating Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM subjects.- Ch. 1 Pedagogical tools to teach STEAM Subjects Integrating Linguistic Rights.- Ch. 2 Verbal Arts as Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Tools in Math/Science Education.- Ch. 3 Educating for or against Modernity, Arts and Technoculture.- Ch. 4 Art, Science and Language: Teaching Tools of Aborigines in India.- Ch. 5 Fictions as Heuristic Tools for a STEAM approach to education: Towards an Understanding of Agency as the Foundation of Linguistic.- Section 2: Technology in Design Curriculum, Engineering in STEAM Pedagogy
and the Arts.- Ch. 6 STEAM Education: Why Learn Design Thinking?.- Ch. 7 Using Technology to Scaffold Progressive Teaching.- Ch. 8 Embracing Creativity in K-12 Engineering Pedagogy
- Ch. 9 Making the Invisible Visible.- Ch. 10 Art as the Bridge to Science and Interconnectedness.- Section 3: Mathematics, Ethno-Mathematics and Medicine.- Ch. 11 Humanity Moving from Pre-Historic Times to the Future with Creative STEAM.- Ch. 12 Reflections on STEAM in Education.- Ch. 13 The Synchronicity of Art and Mathematics.- Ch. 14 The Hidden and Essential Narrative: Language and Visual Art as Learning Tools in STEM.- Ch. 15 Artists as Co-Teachers in the Field of Medicine.