2022 Annual International Conference

Unity and Inclusion for Global Scientific Literacy: Invite as a Community. Unite as a Community

The NARST 95th Annual International Conference—Unity and Inclusion for Global Scientific Literacy: Invite as a Community. Unite as a Community— was held March 27-30, 2022, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver is a welcoming, vibrant city for what was a unique and productive conference experience for the NARST community.

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Pre-Conference Workshops

March 21, 2022

NARST Writing Retreat

The Writing Retreat organized by the NARST Membership Committee will be a half-day virtual event where members come together to write and get feedback on writing projects as a virtual kick-off for the official conference. The Writing Retreat is a collective space where members write and support each other. Writers with varied experiences will be present to answer questions and address challenges you are facing in finalizing (or even getting started) on your writing projects, papers, or manuscripts. Additionally, given the hybrid nature of the conference, we will be joined by a number of International scholars with substantial experience publishing in English language journals who will be available for consultation as well.

Maximum Attendees: 50
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Monday, March 21 from 12noon - 4:00pm Pacific
Format: Online

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March 25, 2022

An Introduction to Data Science in Science Education Using R

Data science-involving the use of mathematics and statistics, tools and ideas from computer science, and knowledge of a particular domain-can enable analysts to work with their data more effectively. This workshop is sponsored by the NARST Contemporary Methods Research Interest Group (RIG) and is designed to equip science education researchers with the tools and knowledge to begin to use data science methods. Participants will learn about prior research and techniques for using data science methods in science education research and will understand what a typical data science process entails. Participants will also gain experience reasoning about, running, and understanding the results of code using the statistical programming language R. The use of RStudio Cloud will enable participants to quickly begin to use R without installing R or any R packages (add-ons) prior to the workshop. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity to begin to carry out their own analyses and can ask targeted questions to guide future work. Finally, this workshop will provide opportunities for attendees to network with others interested in data science methods. Broadly, this workshop will support the efforts of NARST members interested in understanding and applying cutting-edge research methods in their work.

Maximum Attendees: 30
Fee: $5.00
Schedule: Friday, March 25 from 12:00noon-4:00pm Pacific
Format: Online

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March 27, 2022

Equity and Ethics Preconference Workshop: Unity and Inclusion for Global Scient…

Science education researchers have always been concerned with how communities participate in science. Science connects people with the natural world, supports the development of scientific literacy, and provides frameworks for engaging with the opportunities and challenges the world faces today. These goals are increasingly important given the enduring gap in access and opportunities for science learning for an increasingly diverse student population across the globe. In response, the NARST community is now charged with considering how inclusive science education can transform science teaching and learning across multiple and varied, real and virtual contexts to promote a socially just world. Through an equity and ethics lens, pre-conference workshop participants will engage in constructive and meaningful dialogue with leading science education scholars about strategies to develop critical and scientifically literate educators both within and beyond their classroom practice, research, and service. Additionally, we will discuss leveraging our research to involve the community in co-constructing scientific literacy and participation in relevant and important science. The dialogue will center on equity, citizenship, privilege, access in science education, and research between and among workshop participants and the leading science education scholars. The session will be facilitated as a whole and small group discussion. Also, technology integration such as Twitter will provide a platform to foster continuous dialogue during the workshop and throughout the conference using: #NARST/EEC.

Dr. Saouma BouJaoude, American University of Beirut, boujaoud@aub.edu.lb
Dr. Gregory Clark, The University of Texas at Austin, gbclark@utexas.edu
Dr. Meredith Kier, The College of William and Mary, mwkier@wm.edu
Dr. Natalie King, Georgia State University, natalieking@gsu.edu
Dr. Christina Siry, The Université du Luxembourg, christina.siry@uni.lu

Maximum Attendees: 45
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am-11:45am Pacific
Format: In person and online

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March 27, 2022

Conducting Policy Reviews to Uncover Systemic Barriers into Science Education

The workshop will engage participants in hands-on experience of reviewing institutional documents that contain policy as related to membership in the science education community. The intent is to diversify the science education community by identifying and advocating for changes to policies that serve to exclude marginalized populations. This includes requirements for entry into science teacher education programs, teacher licensure requirements, graduate program policies and procedures and more. The workshop directly responds to research that indicates persistent problems of underrepresentation of Teachers of Color in US K12 science classrooms (and teaching more broadly) and limited access and opportunities in science learning within underserved communities. The aim is to remove systemic barriers in the science education community as a means to foster inclusive spaces. The workshop facilitators will provide an overview of systemic barriers and strategies for examining policy documents. Participants will be provided time to work collaboratively with each other with support and guidance from the facilitators. The workshop will conclude with the opportunities to draft a plan of action to address potential barriers found within the policy documents.

Maximum Attendees: 50
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am-11:45am Pacific
Format: In person

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March 27, 2022

YESTEM: Justice-Oriented Pedagogies and Practices for Informal Science Learning…

This workshop engages participants in new/emerging conceptual frameworks and approaches in support of the design and enactment of justice-oriented pedagogies to enhance Informal Science Learning (ISL) and Research+Practice efforts. Insights for this workshop emerge from long-term research-practice partnerships (RPPs) across informal STEM learning spaces in the US and UK. Frameworks and approaches support researchers, educators, designers, and directors working in informal (out-of-school) STEM learning, towards unity and inclusion for global scientific literacy through the centering of youth, families, and communities. The workshop could be especially helpful for researchers seeking to establish new RPPs with a central focus on justice. Justice-Oriented ISL is an integrated approach to support STEM-agentic lives, so that youth can enact and transform STEM to address issues that matter to them. This work centers on pedagogies that embrace youth as co-learners and necessary partners in the present and future of STEM. Justice-Oriented ISL positions youth as co-owners of STEM spaces (instead of just visitors or guests), to address historical and continued impacts of racism, sexism, and classism on learning and practice. This means design and pedagogical practice towards more equitable power sharing, rethinking what and who counts in STEM. Participants will leave with innovative approaches and concepts to enhance relationship-building, resource-sharing, learning facilitation and pedagogies, institution planning, space design, and program design. Participants will also receive access to a suite of materials and resources, including concept guides, youth-adult interaction strategies, tools to support youth knowledge and practice, and youth feedback measures. This workshop draws from 5 years of longitudinal RPP work involving international surveys (youth and adult) and workshops (adult ISL leaders and staff), critical ethnographic participatory research, and design-based implementation research (DBIR).

Attendees: 50
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am - 11:45am Pacific
Format: In person and Online

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March 27, 2022

Teaching and Learning Science in a ‘Post-Truth’ Society: New Roles for Socio-Sc…

There is an urgent need to address socio-scientific issues (SSI) in the science classroom, such as genome editing, emerging diseases (e.g., COVID-19), climate change, antibiotic resistance, and others. SSI have been shown by a wealth of prior research to offer an excellent context for the development of critical thinking skills about information and resources, exploration of the Nature of Science, scientific argumentation, analysis and collaboration (McNeil & Krajcik, 2008). Moreover, in the last two decades, the volume of information readily available to students has grown exponentially, while the quality of that information has become more difficult for students and teachers to assess due to a lack of gatekeeping and an absence of adequate peer review (i.e., of the scientific information published online). In the current ‘Post-Truth’ era, where scientific reasoning and even the competence of scientists is questioned by the general public (McIntyre, 2018), students must learn how to evaluate information critically, detect bias, and make decisions about whether sources of information are credible. Moreover, SSI offer a rich context for engaging, culturally relevant and inclusive STEM curriculum that supports the NGSS and development of 21st century competencies (Reiser, 2013). This workshop will provide hands-on opportunities for educators to explore relevant theoretical frameworks and pedagogical approaches for integrating SSI within science education. We will focus on creating scientific classroom communities and addressing 21st Century and scientific competencies, such as collaboration, communication, global citizenship, scientific argumentation and the ability to evaluate the credibility of primary and secondary resources.

Maximum Attendees: 45
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am-11:45am Pacific
Format: In person and Online

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March 27, 2022

LaRIG Pre-Conference Workshop: Community Building for Success: Latinx Graduate …

This workshop aims to be a space for Latinx and other culturally and linguistically diverse scholars, educators and graduate students to identify the properties of effective a) mentorships b) research publications and c) tenure and promotion processes from other successfully established scholars in the science education research community. Workshop panelists will present their research and experiences as Latinx in the field of science education to illustrate relevant examples of projects with Latinx peers and students. The session is also designed for Latinx scholars and other culturally and linguistically diverse NARST members to establish supportive relationships with knowledgeable mentors and with each other, thus increasing their repertoire of strategies for successfully navigating academia. The workshop will combine panel sessions where participants can ask questions to senior and emerging scholars, with small group discussion where participants will share their experiences in greater depth and receive more specific advice. The discussions will focus on three areas: 1) advice to get the mentoring you want and becoming an effective mentor, 2) advice on a) career activities to support on-time tenure and promotion or b) successful practices for completing doctoral programs, 3) strategizing writing and publishing about our research with Latinx and/or other populations, and 4) learning how to actively engage in the NARST community. Small group discussions may be conducted in the preferred language of the participants (Spanish, English, or any combination of them). Overall, the workshop aims to provide all participants a safe space for positive and constructive mentoring/community building experiences for doctoral students and career scholars to feel empowered to succeed in their roles as researchers and science teacher educators.

Maximum Attendees: 30
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am - 11:45am Pacific
Format: In person and online

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March 27, 2022

Early Career Faculty Forum

The Membership Committee hosts an annual Early Career Faculty Forum. This year the forum will use a panel approach to introduce junior faculty members and post-doctoral fellows to peers, recently promoted colleagues, and prominent scholars. The forum will focus on the nuances of succeeding during the early career years as a faculty member. Our discussions will include issues of developing and maintaining a research agenda (e.g., publications & grant writing), adhering to teaching responsibilities, and effective ways for engaging in meaningful service experiences. In addition, the forum will explore many of the challenges of transitioning into new professional roles and maintaining balance in your life in the process. The Early Career Faculty forum will provide participants with a detailed examination of the many small nuances that impact the successful navigation of early faculty careers in science education. Following the panel, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in round table discussions for more in depth sharing and questioning.

Maximum Attendees: 100
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am - 11:45am Pacific
Format: In person

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March 27, 2022

Indigenous Science Knowledge RIG Pre-Conference Workshop: Indigenous Knowledges…

This workshop will use the lens of Bio-cultural diversity to allow participants to intermingle with Indigenous and First Nations knowledge, people, places, artifacts, language, and culture. Indigenous communities and people face immense challenges in sustaining and preserving their culture and knowledge. These challenges bring issues of loss of traditional lands, practices, resources, and language to threats brought by climate change, COVID-19, public health, and our everyday lives. Since our current environmental problems (fires and drought in particular) are directly the result of our human activities, education and educational research have a key role to play in seeking solutions. Indigenous communities also have endured the greatest challenges in their traditional practices and livelihoods as a result of our changing climate. Therefore a core feature of this workshop will involve a guided and engaging dialectic with local Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies with the overarching goal for participants to decolonize their thinking and learn more about the nature of Indigenous practices, values, beliefs, and the deep meanings these have for Indigenous people. This will be followed by roundtables supporting interactive conversations to learn the need for collaborative community-driven work, conceptualize and implement meaningful research in Indigenous settings to enact place-based knowledge and methodologies that supports Indigenous ways of knowing and learning. Further, roundtable discussants will focus on the place for science teaching, teacher preparation and educational research in Indigenous communities including but not limited to ethics, equity, historical and environmental contexts and the roles of place, language, stories, values and practices. Participants will be invited to discuss how Indigenous knowledge and collaboration with Indigenous communities should involve reciprocity so we ensure that the research benefits the people more than the researcher.

Maximum Attendees: 50
Fee: $10 in person; $0 virtual
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 8:00am - 11:45am Pacific
Format: In person and online

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March 27, 2022

NARST Welcome Session

The Welcome Meeting organized by the NARST Membership Committee will be a 1 hour event where new members, first-time attendees, practitioners are provided with conference logistics as well as opportunities to ask questions relevant to navigating the NARST experience. The Welcome Session is a communal space to learn about the functioning of NARST in a space with little to no judgment, while also fostering relationships with their peers. Developed by the Membership Committee, attendees will hear from NARST Leadership and other key constituents who will share about their own relationship to NARST and what keeps them coming back. Additionally, attendees will also be provided with information regarding spotlight sessions and opportunities to get involved with the organization early.

Maximum Attendees: 50
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Sunday, March 27 from 10:00am-11:00am Pacific
Format: In person and Online

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March 27, 2022

Mentor-Mentee Nexus

The membership committee hosts an annual Mentor-Mentee Nexus. This 45-minute session serves as a context for those first-time attendees, or those relatively new, to NARST (i.e. Mentee) to interact with more experienced NARST members (i.e. Mentor). Session leaders facilitate the introduction of mentors and mentees by identifying and matching interested parties, creating an environment that supports communication among mentors and mentees, and monitors and evaluates mentor and mentee needs with respect to the NARST session. During the session, Mentors provide insight regarding topics of interest to the Mentee by either providing answers to Mentee questions or helping the Mentee identify an appropriate source of information. During the session, Mentees locate their Mentor and in a small group share questions, concerns, and insights with their Mentors and other Mentees.

Maximum Attendees: 50
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: In person Sunday, March 27 from 11:00am - 11:45am Pacific; Virtual participants may schedule sessions according to availability
Format: In person and Online

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March 28, 2022

Queering science teacher education and research: Toward gender, sex, and sexual…

As science teacher educators and researchers, we have a responsibility to consistently engage in conversations with pre- and in-service teachers about equity, be prepared to learn and share new language, and reflect on our own implicit biases as we prompt teachers to do the same. With the recent societal increase in conversations around the needs of gender and sexually diverse students comes a greater opportunity to support LGBTQ+ students in all contexts including the science classroom. This workshop focuses on gender-inclusive practices and seeks to be informational, instructional, and transformative. Topics range from supporting LGBTQ+ college students who wish to become teachers to preparing K-12 science teachers to create gender, sex, and sexuality affirming classrooms. Participants can expect to develop an inclusive vocabulary and an understanding of gender-affirming terms, share practical pedagogical tips, and gain some resources to support teacher education on LGBTQ+ inclusivity. The ultimate goal is for science educators to build more complete views of both science and society by developing the tools that address the diversity and fluidity of sex, gender, and sexuality in both human and non-human species. These approaches help support a more full sense of belonging for gender-diverse students in science education and are an important learning focus for all members of society.

Maximum Attendees: 40
Fee: $0.00
Schedule: Monday, March 28 from 5:00pm-8:45pm Pacific
Format: Online