Virtual Events and Webinars
Scheduled Events
Anti-blackness and Latinidad
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
Sponsored by: LARIG Research Interest Group
Anti-Blackness refers to beliefs, attitudes, actions, practices, and behaviors of individuals and institutions that devalue, minimize, and marginalize the full participation of Black people. Recently, LatCrit Education scholars have emphasized the necessity to situate race in the conceptualization of Latinidad, and thus address Anti-Blackness in the Latino/a/x/e community.
During this event, invited speakers will present their work with Latino STEM students/educators, highlighting the ways in which they situate race and name anti-Blackness. Following their presentations, members of the LARIG leadership will facilitate an open discussion with webinar attendees on this topic.
Organizers:
Summer Blanco, summer.blanco@uga.edu
Teaching School Genetics in the 2020s: Why naïve Mendelian genetics has to go
Monday, November 4, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
The way we teach Mendelian genetics in schools deprives school students of gaining an authentic image of both hereditary phenomena and of the nature of science. Mendelian genetics is a research program that dominated the first half of the 20th century, whereas it continued to be active during its second half despite the “molecular revolution”.
This presentation corrects the distorting stereotypical representations of Mendelian genetics and provides an authentic picture of how science is done, and also explains how the oversimplifications of Mendelian genetics were exploited by ideologues to provide the presumed “scientific” basis for eugenics. In their place, it proposes a shift in school education from teaching how the science of genetics is done using model systems to teaching the complexities of development through which heredity is materialized.
Organizers:
Kostas Kampourakis, Kostas.Kampourakis@unige.ch
Understanding How Black and Hispanic Students’ Career Aspirations Evolve During Middle and High School
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 1-2 pm EST
The continued shortage of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals in the United States has urged researchers and educators to examine how best to increase and diversify the STEM workforce. Of utmost concern is the underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students in the STEM workforce. Because many students begin to formulate career aspirations during adolescence, it is critical to understand how career aspirations change during middle and high school.
To this end, we conducted a survey of 1,134 beginning college students at 23 institutions in the U.S., including Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions, asking students to report their career aspirations at four time points-- from the beginning of middle school to the beginning of college.
In this webinar, we will share our findings.
Organizers:
Tingting Reid, tingting.reid@cfa.harvard.edu
Climate Change and Environmental Education: the Challenges of Language Use, Curriculum Design and Making Meaningful Connections
Monday, December 2, 2024, 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Event Registration - not open yet
Profound understanding can be a vibrant power for education, leading to a path for taking steps to protect positive environment protection. Communication among the scientists & the scholars of humanities Explanatory understanding and a secret for environment education The term climate change (which change?) Use of effective science terms to improve understanding Making science concepts understandable for all The art and science of making effective diagrams to convey science concepts In a multilingual world - to reach all, needs of multilingual communication Multiple forms of environment (considering physical environment, cognitive environment, social environment, language environment and other forms) How this approach can facilitate multidimensional pathway for environment education A Journal Article Published in International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education LUMAT-B April 9 2024. Climate change and environmental education the challenges of language use, curriculum design and making meaningful connections Please click on link: https://journals.helsinki.fi/lumatb/article/view/2086
Organizers:
Dr. Altaf Qadeer, dr.altafqadeer@gmail.com