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  • Engineering for Equity: Exploring the Intersection of Engineering Education, Family Learning, Early Childhood, and Equity
    Date: 07/11/2022
    Resource Category: Book
    Over the last year we have been able to take a few hours each week to step back from our current work, reflect on our assumptions, learn from others, and explore new ways that our research could both uncover and help dismantle inequities and racism in the STEM education system. This eBook, and the series of blog posts on which it is based, is the ... »
  • Engaging in Energy Communities: The role of the researcher (A workbook and planning guide)
    Date: 06/01/2021
    Resource Category: Book
    This workbook / planning guide was designed as an outreach tool to support students and early-career researchers who are studying the social impacts of energy development and wish to better understand and mitigate “research fatigue,” a state in which citizens of a community who are already experiencing massive change may be exhausted by additional ... »
  • Purposeful Pursuits: Leveraging the Epistemic Practices of the Arts and Sciences
    Date: 01/01/2020
    Resource Category: Edited Chapter
    But many young people face signifcant economic, cultural, historical, and/or social obstacles that distance them from STEM as a meaningful or viable option— these range from under-resourced schools, race- and gender-based discrimination, to the dominant cultural norms of STEM professions or the historical uses of STEM to oppress or disadvantage ... »
  • Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: Zine Edition
    Date: 10/17/2019
    Resource Category: Book
    This zine summarizes the book "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning." It provides an accessible graphic introduction to how inequalities in everyday science learning happen, so that we can get to a place where everyday science learning practices could disrupt and transform social inequities rather than reproducing them. ... »
  • Meaningful Making 2: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces
    Date: 03/08/2019
    Resource Category: Book
    Meaningful Making 2 is a second volume of projects and strategies from the Columbia University FabLearn Fellows. This diverse group of leading K–12 educators teach in Fab Labs, makerspaces, classrooms, libraries, community centers, and museums—all with the goal of making learning more meaningful for every child. A learning revolution is in the ... »
  • STEM Literacies in Makerspaces: Implications for Learning, Teaching, and Research
    Date: 03/04/2019
    Resource Category: Book
    Providing an original framework for the study of makerspaces in a literacy context, this book bridges the scholarship of literacy studies and STEM and offers a window into the practices that makers learn and interact with. Tucker-Raymond and Gravel define and illustrate five key STEM literacies—identifying, organizing, and integrating information ... »
  • Learning Through Citizen Science: Enhancing Opportunities by Design
    Date: 11/15/2018
    Resource Category: Book
    In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects focus on, but are not limited to, nonscientists participating in the processes of scientific research, with the intended goal of advancing and using scientific knowledge. A rich range of projects extend ... »
  • Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
    Date: 10/15/2018
    Resource Category: Book
    Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated by evolving new technologies that connect people ... »
  • How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures
    Date: 10/14/2018
    Resource Category: Book
    There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has ... »
  • Cultures of Science
    Date: 04/26/2017
    Resource Category: Book
    The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the issues of scientific literacy in a dozen countries, as well as the actions taken to address the distinct problems they face. It also presents some experiments that are conducted there. This dossier was produced as part of Les Journées internationales de la culture scientifique – Science ... »

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