Ethnographic Knowledge Capture Methodology
PAST provides embedded anthropologists for continuous study & analysis to evolve STEM educational reform.
Understanding local culture is critical to successful educational reform. Ethnographic Knowledge Capture coalesces the community voices reflecting common threads of understanding and unique community perspectives informing decision making and revealing bottlenecks in the system so that they can be addressed.
Culturally relevant educational design connects students and teachers with local community and industry. Ethnographic Knowledge Capture helps in planning and partnering so that the underlying systems reflect the entire community and are as robust as possible.
Anthropology provides avenues for real-time and agile course correction that is key to program growth and sustained success.
STEM Educational Design Methodology
Design Principles that Lead from Aspiration to Innovation
STEM provides an approach to learning that allows students of all ages to explore and examine real world issues holistically. Using the tried and true design principles of scientific methods as a vehicle while bringing many disciplines to bear on a question links learning to life.
Combining a transdisciplinary approach that de-silos education with STEM design principles addressing real world issues enable PAST to partner with teachers, schools, communities, and industry to build programs that are engaging and sustainable.
PAST has partnered with schools around the world in building programs that
- Address real issues,
- Are aligned to educational standards,
- Continue to grow,
- Are sustainable, and
- Have real outcomes.
Strong programs require a set of partners from industry, higher education, PK-12, and the community. Employing teachers as fundamental partners, PAST Anthropologists are able to build strong cohorts that are supported through consistent professional development within a well-structured system that can be scaled and sustained. Partnering with higher education, industry, and the community these collaboratives provide students and teachers with deep content expertise and access to current research and support. Utilizing technology, PAST is able to spur inquiry and broaden the reach of all programs.
PAST helps teachers, schools, and communities build programs that transform educational systems into 21st century learning centers.
