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Creating a Female‐Responsive Design Framework for STEM exhibits

July 15, 2018 | Exhibitions

This paper describes the development of a Female-Responsive Design Framework for Informal Science Education (ISE). The FRD Framework translates ideas from Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to discover and recommend pedagogical strategies that apply to females and design. This paper describes our synthesis of prior research about females’ social, historical, and cultural practices in STEM learning from a variety of fields. The paper further details our process of developing the FRD Framework with the help of museum practitioners, female youth, researchers, and experts from the fields of design, gender, and museums. We discuss four female-responsive strategies, and suggest multiple STEM exhibit design attributes that support each of these strategies. This framework contributes to a growing movement to more thoughtfully consider females when designing STEM exhibits. We hope that the museum field will expand, evolve, and deeply explore the FRD Framework.

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  • Citation

    DOI : https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12268
    ISSN : 2151-6952
    Publication Name: Curator: The Museum Journal
    Volume: 61
    Number: 3
    Page Number: 469-484

    Funders

    NSF
    Funding Program: AISL
    Award Number: 1323806
    Resource Type: Research Products
    Discipline: General STEM | Mathematics
    Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum/ISE Professionals | Learning Researchers
    Environment Type: Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits
    Access and Inclusion: Women and Girls

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