STEMSiL: STEM methodologies in Sign Languages
Project E-mail: info@ceipes.org
Objectives
Identify the special needs and characteristics of deaf education and connect them with the STEM fields.
Develop new methodologies and tools for teachers and Sign Language interpreters to transmit the main STEM concepts into deaf education.
Harness the Sign Language and the special elements of deaf culture to promote STEM education in primary and secondary level of education.
Promote the involvement of teachers, Sign Language interpreters and deaf students in real-life STEM projects.
Activities
Need analysis through focus group and interviews
Development of a STEM kit and vocabulary in Sign Language
Design, pilot testing and realization of the platform
Implementation of the STEM projects
Results
A Transnational study for the existing methods of teaching STEM in deaf education and the needs of teachers and deaf students.
A new tailor-made methodology for teaching STEM in deaf education in the form of Bilingual handbook– ‘STEM in Deaf Education’.
An online Platform with a visual STEM lexicon in several EU Sign Languages.
Real-life STEM projects co-created by deaf students and teachers/ Sign Language interpreters
