Virtual Chicago Symposium
Chicago Symposium Series
April 30, 2021
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Chicago, IL 60612
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The socio-ecological challenges of the 21st century are only increasing. Reimagining socio-ecological systems are, and will continue to be a central concern of societies that require new forms of understandings and decision making about relations between human worlds and the natural world. Given these contexts what forms of science education are needed? In this talk I present research that explore cultural variation in reasoning about the natural world and research from two learning environments that take up cultural heterogeneity in the development and implementation critical socio-ecological science education with Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners. Across this work I highlight how science education can be a sight of both social and ecological justice and change towards collective wellbeing.
University of Michigan
Community colleges play an important role in the preparation of the next generation of STEM majors. The number of students taking courses at community colleges to complete requirements for their undergraduate majors has been on the rise in part due to increasing costs of higher education as well as states offering free tuition at community colleges. Yet the rates of success in mathematics courses taught at community colleges, especially in courses needed for a STEM degree, are low. In this talk I will describe a project that sought to assess the connection between quality instruction in community college algebra courses and students' outcomes. I will describe the context of the project, the research questions, and our findings, and derive some implications for the teaching of mathematics in post-secondary settings.
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Feb 9, 2021
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Feb 9, 2021