School of Education Alumna听Carrie Allen听was nominated听for both Best Student Paper and Best Overall Paper听out of 100+ submissions at the听International Conference of the Learning Sciences held听in Singapore from June 20-24.
Her paper听titled,听鈥淔ighting for Desired Versions of a Future Self: Young African American Women's STEM-related Identity Negotiations in High School," was co-authored with Professor Emerita听Margaret Eisenhart.听The researchers investigated how the national narrative of increasing opportunities for and broadening participation of young women of color in STEM was taken up locally at one racially听diverse, urban high school. Using ethnographic and longitudinal data, they focused on two young women of color as they negotiated and maintained STEM-related identities in the discursive and practice contexts of their lives at school.听
Allen graduated in听2016听with her doctorate in听Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences听鈥斕齨ow听Learning Sciences and Human Development听program. Her research focuses听on the relationship between schooling practices, teacher instruction, and student participation and identity in STEM.
First held in 1992 and held bi-annually since 1996, (ICLS) hosts keynotes, symposia, workshops, panels, submitted paper sessions, poster sessions, and demos covering important issues and reporting research findings across the entire field of the learning sciences. This event brings together researchers from the fields of cognitive science, educational research, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, information sciences, anthropology, sociology, neurosciences, and other fields to study learning in a wide variety of formal and informal contexts
This year the and the hosted the 12th annual ICLS:听Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners.听Several scholars from the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education participated in听and/or helped support the conference.听闯辞别听笔辞濒尘补苍 was a program co-chair, and Professors听Polman听and Bill Penuel were part of the conference advisory committee.听
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Related Faculty: Margaret Eisenhart, Joseph Polman, William Penuel