"Refocusing the Revolution: A New Research Agenda for Geoscience Educat" by Elizabeth B. Lewis

Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education

 

Date of this Version

2008

Citation

Conference presentation at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America:

Houston, TX, 2008.

Comments

Copyright (c) 2008 Elizabeth Lewis.

Abstract

Geoscience Education: Stuck in Low Gear or Poised for a Breakthrough?

We must act quickly & broaden approaches to four problems

• Falling geoscience undergraduate enrollments
• Lagging diversity in the geosciences
• Insufficient secondary Earth & space science teacher supply
• Low (7%) high school ESS course offerings and enrollment

Leverage existing educational research literature & theory

• Curriculum stability and change
• Culture, gender, and science education
• Socio-cultural models of science and theories of learning

Develop a new research agenda to spark the Revolution

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