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Being Critical: (In)Equity In Education For Students With Disabilities, Ellen Hotchkiss
Being Critical: (In)Equity In Education For Students With Disabilities, Ellen Hotchkiss
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium
Theoretical framework: Critical pedagogy, disability studies & postmodernity. Disability studies is a burgeoning field in its nascency. Questions of identity and what is normal through the eyes of people that live in what society calls a disability, calls into question the deficit-medical model and what is worthwhile learning. It re-embraces the origins of disability rights in the civil rights movement. Only through focusing our outlook wider in a critical manner and a postmodern lens can educators build awareness, empowerment and enable equitable education for people with Dis/Abilities. Methodology: Literature review of the important theoretical frameworks, literature, and scholarship relating to …
21st Century Reasoning Modalities In Interdisciplinary Stem Education, Bryan Gallant
21st Century Reasoning Modalities In Interdisciplinary Stem Education, Bryan Gallant
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium
The overarching goal of the Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education (iå_STEMe) at Georgia Southern University is to improve student engagement and learning outcomes in STEM courses through immersion in authentic, real-world, problem-based and place-based educational settings. To accomplish this goal, iå_STEMe has partnered with 10 middle and high schools located in Georgia to incorporate a series of reasoning modalities developed to meet the requirements of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to develop STEM literate citizens capable of making informed decisions, and to open up opportunities to fill the growing need for STEM professionals. The reasoning modalities developed are Complex …