Power Point presentation to accompany paper presented at International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL., 2016

1. What’s to know?
Four steps
to humanities-STEM ebb & flow
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2. What’s to know?
Humanities & STEM
differing mindsets?
not-so-differing minds
united through compositionism
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3. Compositionism, in theory
“Ecology of knowledge” (Liu)
Miscellany > effective thinking (Benzon)
Natural human practice : Découvrir (Latour)
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4. Compositionism, in practice
In chemistry & pharmacology
In architecture
In language
In arts
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5. Compositionism: Four tenets
Identifying core values
Framing the core values
Placing core values in public
Generating, building, re-building
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6. Core values
Defined generally
Defined in STEM, math in particular
Defined in humanities & in arts
Defined across generations
Rendered “compositionist”
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7. “Framing” values: Strategizing
Defined generally
Defined in economics
Defined across STEM
Defined in linguistics
Defined in the arts
Compositionist?
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8. Placing values before the public
Defined generally: Wisdom of the crowd
Defined & done in STEM
Defined & done in arts
To the compositionist:
“Self-criticism as well as criticism”
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9. Generating, building, re-building…
What is being built?
Who is doing the building?
How is this building happening?
For whom is the building being done?
Why is it happening… and why right now?
Why/how does it matter to whom?
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10. Compositionism on two axes
Academic areas: STEM & arts/humanities
Age/generations: Boomers & beyond…Millennials & more
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11. Compositionism among educators: academe
The four tenets, summarized for schools:
Core values, frames, publishing, building
The four tenets from “above” & “within”:
Administration, faculty, staff, students
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12. Compositionism & age: Millennials’ values?
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13. Compositionism & age: Millennials’ values!
Reverse mentorship
Culture of open collaboration
Flexibility (no fixed schedule or hours)
Opportunities no matter the age, sex, ethnicity
Communities count (internal & external, real & virtual)
Quality of (the good!) life counts
“Latest greatest technology” leverages innovation
“Because we have always done it that way” doesn’t matter
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14. Who knows what? Generated values & frames
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15. What’s to know?
What counts?
Age? Academics? “Life experience”?
Core values? Frames? Making things public? Building?
How should/ought compositionism occur?
What are the “takeaways”?
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